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• Cut the top off
• Make an incision
• Prune, cut the top off
• Cut away branches or twigs
• Might a sailor have had it to be so wounding to a lass?
• You get this divided in 21 down
• The gal might be in a hurry to do the cutting like this
• That would make 33 down short on top
• That lass could be most wounding
• The lass for a sailor is enough to give 1 down a start
• See 4 across
• How offensive for the sailor to have a lass with this!
• See you get a slice of this before tea
• A sailor might have had to be so wounding to his lass
• That's the sort of lass that might wound one