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Meleman, Meil(l)man, n. Also: mel(l)-, meal(l)-. [ME. mele- (1275), melle- (1329), melman (1332), e.m.E. mealeman (1552), and in later north. Eng. dial.] In southern Scotland: A dealer in meal; a meal-seller.(a) 1527 Selkirk B. Ct. (ed.) 91.
Als mony half furlatis as vyll sereff all the mellmen
Ib.
Melmen
1574 Glasgow B. Rec. I. 14.
Robert Millare, meleman
(b) 1557 Peebles B. Rec. I. 238.
That the meill men hors be kepit be thame alanerlie
1563 Ib. 291. 1567 Glasgow Prot. III. 99. 1570 Lanark B. Rec. 53.
Meill men, cadgaris, travellouris, [etc.]
1570 Canongate Ct. Bk. 291. 1569-73 Bann. Memor. 220. c 1580 Edinb. B. Rec. I. 37.
I fynd quhair the provest … ordanis the meilmen topperis fremen of the towne sell and top his meill daylie
1585 Ib. IV. 390. 1588 Glasgow B. Rec. I. 121. 1605 (1694) McUre City of Glasgow (1736) 189.]
[Every mealman shall pay for every crop or kiln of corn eight pennies to be applied to the well of their decayed brethren
1605 Glasgow Merchants House 76.
There shall be a visitor of maltmen and meilmen
1605 Glasgow B. Rec. I. 231. 1615 S. Leith Kirk S. 13. 1643 Kirkcudbr. B. Rec. II. 692, etc. 1658 Paisley B. Rec. 143. 1665 Irvine Mun. II. 195. 1672 Glasgow Maltmen 31. 1687 Glasgow B. Rec. III. 401.
There are several meilmen … who uses ane trade as freemen
(c) 1633 Kirkcudbr. B. Rec. II. 478.
Mealman
1707 Ayr & W. Coll. IV. 235.
Meallman

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