? possible alteration of cullion Note: definition 2: from A Glossary of North Country Words,John Trotter Brockett: "The fable of the thirsty ghost of Gullion drinking the river Acheron dry, is told with considerable humour in one of Bishop Hall's Satires." E-NED only lists definition 1, and shows 1825-80 in Jamieson. An earlier example below is from: The History of Manchester: Book the Second containing The Saxon Period By John Whitaker, 1775 A Specimen of an English-British Dictionary (for definition 5)
From: A Description of the Shetland Islands By Samuel Hibbert, 1822 Notes to Iter IV. Note XIII. Page 562. Witchcraft of Shetland. Trial of Witches in Shetland, A.D. 1644 P. 594
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