Meanings
plural shuttances
- UKobsoleteregionalriddance
[…] had it not been for the capture of Plunger — who, after all, was deemed a "good shuttance" — no one would have regretted the price at which the day's lesson had been bought.
1884, Benjamin Brierley, Tales and Sketches of Lancashire Life, volume 4, page 50
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