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First published 2002 (DOST Vol. XII).
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Wattir maill, n.¹ Also: wat(t)er male, watter maile, water maill, -mael(l, vatir mal(e. [Wat(t)ir n. and Mal(e n.¹] Rent for (a piece or stretch of) water. 1395 Reg. Episc. Aberd. II 212.
De custumis Abirdonensibus videlicet de ly vatir malis 1441 Aberd. B. Rec. MS V ii 651 (16 Dec.).
Quhat euer he bee that is awand ony watter male to the toune of termes bigane sal pay that maales bigane or euer thar be made ony new settyng til him 1455 Acts II 42/2.
The lordschippe of Abernethy with the watter malys of Inuernes 1471–2 Aberd. Acc. 1a.
The haill wattir maill of the crussis extendis till xix lib. 1488 Reg. Great S. 381/1.
Dicto duci hereditarie pertinentem de magnis custumis et aquarum firmis nuncupatis le water malez burgi de Aberdene 1492 Aberd. B. Rec. in Mill Mediæv. Plays 133.
The … consal … assignit … x markis of thar watter malys for the office of abbat 1492 Aberd. B. Rec. in Mill Mediæv. Plays 133.
Watter maile 1503 Acta Conc. III (1993) 175.
Water maills 1512–13 Aberd. B. Rec. I 83.
Thar watter malis of Dee and Done 1575 Edinb. Test. III 376b.
Dettis awand … Walter Bell … for watter male foure merkis 1635 Aberd. Council Lett. II 28.
The water maells and burrow maells of Aberdeine