Aberdeenn.

1639 W. Balcanquhall Large Declar. Tumults Scotl. 330 The three Ministers in their first answers to the Aberdene Quæres have fully and clearely expressed themselves to that sense.

1642 J. Row Red-shankes Serm. sig. A4^v Remember your owne proverb in buying and selling (an Aberden man may recant his first bargaine if he please).

1651 R. Watson Ακολουθος: Second Faire Warning viii. 112 The best and most learned of your preachers, the Aberdene Assemblers.

1727 D. Defoe Tour Great Brit. III. ii. 187 The Aberdeen Pork having the Reputation of being the best cur'd, for Keeping on very long Voyages, of any in Europe.

1756 A. Butler Lives Saints I. 50 The Aberdeen Breviary..was printed at Edinburgh, by Walter Chapman, in 1509.

1824 D. Douglas Jrnl. 29 Sept. (1914) 88 On the left is a conspicuous conical hill..of primitive rock, not unlike the Aberdeen granite with which the London streets are paved.

1854 Morning Post 7 July 1/5 (advt.) Aberdeen Linsey Woolseys in granite, heather, and natural wools.

1949 N. Algren Man with Golden Arm i. 137 He saw Poor Peter's face, as white and long as the face of an Aberdeen rabbit.

2001 Sun-Herald (Sydney) 8 Apr. 58/4 Kay Gardner, of Warners Bay, wants a recipe for making Aberdeen sausage.

1839 Times 9 Oct. 3/3 Aberdeen Angus, and Galloway polled breed.

1862 E. Ravenscroft (title) The Polled Herd Book containing Pedigrees of Animals of the Polled Aberdeen Angus and Galloway Breeds.

1891 R. Wallace Rural Econ. Austral. & N.Z. xxxii. 413 The Aberdeen-Angus Polled cattle are slowly but surely working their way to the front in the Colonies.

1940 J. Hammond Farm Animals viii. 149 If we mate a polled red Aberdeen Angus bull to a Shorthorn cow we shall obtain polled calves.

1961 Times 26 May 9/6 A waiter put a slab of Aberdeen Angus..before a young couple who obviously were not used to this sort of thing at lunchtime.

1992 J. Hamilton-Paterson Seven-tenths vi. i. 200 They are heading home to plates of Aberdeen Angus in thick gravy with tatties.

2008 BBC Good Food Sept. 85/1 Traditional cross breeds from Belted Galloways, Aberdeen Angus and Herefords graze around three harbours on the Sussex coast.

1846 Subterranean 31 Jan. 3/3 (advt.) Limericks, Kirby and Aberdeen Hooks, snelled on extra silk worm gut.

1889 Pocahontas County Sun (Iowa) 25 Apr. 1/6 I..put on a two foot leader and to that attached a No. 5 Aberdeen hook.

1909 J. W. Muller & A. Knowlson Fishing in N.Y. 40 If fish are very shy, an Aberdeen hook will often succeed because it is so thin that it is hardly visible in the water.

1974 Jrnl. News (Hamilton, Ohio) 7 July 21/4 Sink a long-shank Aberdeen hook, size 6, into the saddle of a cricket, using just enough split shot to sink it.

2008 T. Lawton Fly Fisher's Logbk. 187/1 If you tie your own flies, they can be tied on sea fishing hooks such as the Aberdeen hook or stainless steel saltwater fly fishing hooks.

1880 H. Dalziel Brit. Dogs ii. xxiv. 362 Those selected for prizes..were not the old hard-haired Scotch terrier, but a well-known distinct variety yclept the Aberdeen terrier.

1889 H. Dalziel Brit. Dogs (ed. 2) II. 363 Such are the Dandie Dinmont, the Skye, and the Aberdeen Terrier, the latter now merged in the class recognised at our shows as the Scotch Terrier.

1922 V. Woolf Jacob's Room xiii. 270 The Aberdeen terrier must be exercised.

1999 Evening Standard (Nexis) 18 Jan. 5 Ernie is still pining for Molly, their black Aberdeen terrier.

1845 J. J. Brown Amer. Angler's Guide i. 29 The weak trout hook,..made of slim wire, with a long shank, similar to the Aberdeen, will be found an excellent hook for trout, salmon, or bass.

1893 Outing 22 123/1 Of all the makes and shapes of hooks the ‘Aberdeen’, of very fine steel-wire, with long, straight shank and a broad, even bend, terminating in a short, barbed point, is the surest shape for large-mouthed trout.

1919 C. B. Cook Fishing, Tackle & Kits 127 If you are after the big fellows and hope to hold'em when you hook'em, save your Aberdeens for the smaller fins and place your bet on the roughnecks.

1999 Boat Angler May 39 I use cheap and cheerful size 6 Aberdeens.

1882 Kennel Club Cal. & Stud Bk. 1881 9 30 Aberdeens: 1st, J. Milne's Grip.

1907 B. M. Croker Company's Servant xxxiii. 337 Two prim Aberdeens, and a pink-eyed bull terrier.

1936 Times 21 Sept. 19/2 One often hears Scottish terriers called Aberdeens, although the association with the northern city never had official recognition.

1997 Daily Record (Nexis) 17 Apr. 11 SNP candidates George Reid and Kenny MacAskill paraded an Aberdeen and two West Highland terriers—Bunny, Cassie and Ailsa.