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Jedburgh

[ jed-bur-oh, -buhr-ohor, especially British, -bruh ]

noun

  1. a border town in the Borders region, in SE Scotland: ruins of an abbey.


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He went to school at Jedburgh, and afterwards to the Edinburgh Academy, where he carried off many prizes.

Sir Gilbert came home from Jedburgh, and had seen your brother there, who told him he would find you here when he came back.

Sharp execution was made in Jedburgh, for twenty-eight of one clan and others were hanged at that Justice Court.

About eleven years ago, there was near the town of Jedburgh a man named Ferguson, who kept an old-established school for boys.

The realm was quartered, and men were laid in Jedburgh and Kelso.

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