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The steamer, guided by one of those excellent pilots from the Irish sea, passed without hesitation between floating buoys, stone columns, and biggings, surmounted with lighthouses, which mark the entrance to the channel.
From The Blockade Runners by D'Anvers, N.
Ye 'll get biggings and mailins, And mony braw claes; But they a' winna buy back The peace o' past days.
From The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume III The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century by Rogers, Charles