Note 419 — PART II. DR. COVEL’S DIARY. (continued 4)
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Ploy, abbreviated form of “employ”. “Twa unlucky red-coats were up for black-fishing or some siccun ploy.” (Scott, Waverley, ch. lxiv.)
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Ploy, abbreviated form of “employ”. “Twa unlucky red-coats were up for black-fishing or some siccun ploy.” (Scott, Waverley, ch. lxiv.)