At one time the place of execution in Edinburgh.
“I like nane oʹ your sermons that end in a psalm at the Grassmarket.”—Sir Walter Scott: Old Mortality, chap. xxxv.
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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.