OED2 does not have "blackmail" from Scott, "Rob Roy", possibly 1817?

[Douglas G. Wilson]

>Why is "black_mail", used several times in Scott's "Rob Roy", not in
>OED2 under sense 2, the extended sense?

Maybe because this is considered sense 1?

-- Doug Wilson


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