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#* '''1662''', {{w|Henry More}}, ''[[s:An Antidote Against Atheism|An Antidote Against Atheism]]'', Book III, A Collection of Several Philosophical Writings of Dr. Henry More, p. 120:

#*: "She had no sooner said so, but they all vanished saving onely one ''Peter Grospetter'', whom a little after she saw snatch'd up into the aire, and to let fall his '''Maulkin''' (a stick that they make clean Ovens withall) and her self was also driven so forcibly with the wind, that it made her almost Lose her breath."

# {{context|now|_|archaic|regional}} A [[scarecrow]]. {{defdate|from 16th c.}}

# {{context|now|_|rare}} A [[cat]]. {{defdate|from 17th c.}}

#*{{RQ:Peake Titus Groan}}

#*:Now she was strong enough to walk and watch them circling in the sky or to sit in the arbour at the end of the long lawn and, with the sunlight smouldering in her dark-red hair and lying wanly over the area of her face and neck, watch the multiform and snow-white convolutions of her '''malkins'''.

#*'''1982''', {{w|TC Boyle}}, ''Water Music'', Penguin 2006, p. 158:

#*:There was milk punch and spiced whisky, a smell of goose and '''maukin''' roasting on the spit.