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The Language of the Scottish Traveller: A Dictionary
By Pauline Cairns Speitel
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aboil
adverb
at or to boiling point:
She’d put a wee drop salt in them
[nettles]
and she would bring them aboil.
19-
.
etymology:
Scots; attested by
DW
in
DC