Excerpt from The English Dialect Dictionary, Vol. 5: Being the Complete Vocabulary of All Dialect Words Still in Use, or Known to Have Been in Use During the Last Two Hundred Years; Founded on the Publications of the English Dialect Society and on a Large Amount of Material Never Before Printed; R-S
Carpenters about Marlborough usually reduce the word to a single letter in making up their accounts, as 'to a new R to Cow-lease gate, &c.' (s.v. Har).
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