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Posted By: Q (Frank Staplin)
17-Apr-07 - 08:01 PM
Thread Name: What are 'piners' THE SALT - v.6 line1
Subject: RE: What are 'piners' THE SALT - v.6 line1
Found it in the Oxford English Dictionary, of course.
In Sc. dialects, applied to a man who cuts peat, turfs, etc. Before the 18th c., spelled pynours or similar.