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or Bold Rakin. A Scottish ogre, represented in the ballad as a bloodthirsty mason; the terror of the Scotch nursery.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.