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book-lear (plural ?)
- (Scots) Education; knowledge gained from books.
1881, edited by A.G. Murdoch, Recent and Living Scottish Poets, page 200:But a' his teachers are agree't they'll never maun to knock Book-lear intae the timmer heid o' my big Jock!.
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