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A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose

1) smooth, polled or shorn ; not-sheep, sheep without horns. Ess. That field is not, that field is well tilled. Berks.

2) a game used in Gloucestershire, where the parties, ranged on opposite sides, with each a bat in their hands, endeavour to strike a ball to opposite goals. The game is called not, from the ball being made of a knotty piece of wood. Glouc.

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