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- noun Diseased mutton.
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(noun) - The flesh of sheep that have died of disease, from drowning, or natural causes. From Anglo-Saxon cwelan, to die.
--R.E.G. Cole's Words Used in Southwest Lincolnshire, 1886
January 14, 2018