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First published 1971 (DOST Vol. IV).
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Mercat-met. Also: mercatt-, merkat-, merket- and -mett. [Of uncertain, and possibly two-fold, derivation: cf. (1) Met n. a measure and (2) Met p.p. and ppl. a. measured.] Measured by, or as by, the standard measures used in a public market or markets. Also with the merkat met, of mercat mett, id.(1) 1488 Liber Aberbr. 259.
And a chaldir and aucht bollis off beir of gude and fresch wytail with the merkat met 1547 Blackfriars Perth 241.
Fourty peckis weill dycht beir of mercat mett(2) 1543 Charter (Reg. H.) C.O. No. 100.
Sex bollis … of ferme mele gud and sufficient stuff mercat met 1556 Prot. Bk. T. Dalrymple 44 b. —1575 Prot. Bk. T. Lindsay MS. 86 (see Marchand-war(e n. a). — 1589 Milne-Home MSS. 57.
Mercat met, gude and sufficient stuff 1591 Grant Chart. 401. —1536 Dunferm. Reg. Ct. 137 (see Mercat n. 1d (3)). 1541 Edinb. B. Rec. II. 109 (see Mercat n. 1d (3)). 1564 Prot. Bk. J. Scott 8 b (see Mercat n. 1d (3)). 1573 Prot. Bk. J. Harlaw 205 b (see Mercat n. 1d (3)).