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toon

n - until the 19th century name given to an area of arable land on an estate with associated common grazing rights in the scattald, and occupied by a number of tenants; more recently, the arable enclosed land of an individual farm; each individual enclosed piece of arable land on a farm. I'm pitten da gimmers ida Lower Toun; a town, for example Lerwick.

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