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First published 1971 (DOST Vol. IV).
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Mas-, Mashloch(e, Mashlowe, n. Also: masleach, maschlache, maischloch, maschlok. [Appar. altered var. of mas(s)ilyon(e Mastillion n. Also in the later dial. as mas-, mashloch, -lich, -lach, -lock and as mashlo.] Mashlum, mixed grain.In mod. use, a mixture of grains or of grain and pulse grown and ground together.

b. Bread made from mixed meal. Also masloche bread.(a) 1445 Aberd. B. Rec. MS. V. i. 642.
Maschlache 1574–5 Elgin Rec. I. 150.
Katherein Ros … wes decernit to keip neborat in schawing masleach in the Schanehery hill c1575 Balfour Pract. 496.
That na man presume to grind quheit, mashloch (mascilionem) or uther cornis with hand milnis 1584 Edinb. B. Rec. IV. 340.
That na baxters … sall grynd at the commoun mylnis any masloch bot sic as cumis furth of vther cuntreis 1602 Ib. V. 309.
Maschlok 1609 Skene Reg. Maj. i. 143 b.
Quheit, maischloch or rye(b) 1595 Duncan App. Etym.
Farrago, a mixture of sundrie stuffs, mashloweb. 1624 Edinb. B. Rec. VI. 249.
The thrid sort of quheitt breid commounlie callit the masloche bread 1646 Ib. VIII. 91.
The twelfpenny loaf callit masloch being the thrid sort to weigh [etc.] 1666 Ib. X. 10.
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