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Webster 1913 Edition
Sooterkin
Soot′er-kin
,Noun.
[Cf. Prov. G.
suttern
to boil gently.] A kind of false birth, fabled to be produced by Dutch women from sitting over their stoves; also, an abortion, in a figurative sense; an abortive scheme.
Fruits of dull heat, and
sooterkins
of wit. Pope.
Webster 1828 Edition
Sooterkin
SOOT'ERKIN
,Noun.