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A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)

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First published 1971 (DOST Vol. IV).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.

(Muk-,) Muck-cairt, -cart, n. [e.m.E. mucke-cart (1519), late ME. (north.) muk-cart.] a. A cart for refuse; a scavenger's cart. b. A dung-cart. —1645 S. Leith Rec. 60.
Andro Alexr to cause dresse up ane muck cairt
1678 Edinb. B. Rec. X. 360.
The present tacksmen trubles the owners of muck cairts for peyment of the dewtie … [which] the muck cairts were never in use to pey
1687 Bk. O. Edinb. C. XXVII. 143.
I … satt in Mr. Duncan's till 8 and saw the muck carts come up the way
1694 Brown Suppl. Dict. Decis. IV. 217.
Seeing it was the custom to have the same horses in the plough in the forenoon, and in the muck-cart in the afternoon

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