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1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 361. ¶13 He teaches the Smut-note, the Fustian-note, the Stupid-note.

1731 in 6th Rep. Deputy Keeper Public Rec. App. ii. 119 A new Machine for cleaning Wheat..is contrived to take away the stains, smut bags, and other trumpery.

1790 Trans. Soc. Arts 8 32 Wheat, sown too long on the same spot, without changing the seed, will generally become smutt and hen-corn.

1818 Niles' Reg. 15 80/1 A smutt mill, for cleaning wheat of smut, is in operation at Plattsburg.

1850 Mary Wedlake's Priced List Farming Implements 25 A Smut Machine, to clean damaged grain.

1852 Appleton's Dict. Machines II. 588 Smut Machine..for cleaning all kinds of grain.

1869 Ann. Rep. Commissioner Agric. 1868 37 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (40th Congr., 3rd Sess.: House of Representatives Executive Doc.) XV A few cattle in Massachusetts have died from eating ‘smut corn’.

1897 W. G. Smith tr. K. F. von Tubeuf Dis. Plants 275 The Ustilagineae or Smut-fungi are distinguished by their dark-coloured or black chlamydospores.

1897 W. G. Smith tr. K. F. von Tubeuf Dis. Plants 276 In this way any adherent smut-spores are killed.

1928 D. H. Lawrence Let. 9 Mar. (1962) II. 1042 Mason wrote me rather scared about the censor and smut~hunting authorities.

1930 Publishers' Weekly 31 May 2737/2 The confiscation of dirty picture postals and smut books.

1961 John o' London's 28 Sept. 357/3 The bulk of The High Price of Pornography is devoted to a survey of the rancid avalanche of smut magazines..which are pulped out in the States.

1965 E. L. Myles Emperor of Peace River i. xiii. 135 He bought..a two-inch stone burr mill complete with smut mill, cleaner and water wheel.

1977 Zigzag Apr. 28/3 He said we were turning lunchtime into a 42nd street smut shop.