A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
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Quotation dates: 1531, 1585-1586
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Abuschement, n. [ME. abusse-, abuschement, etc. (14th c.), reduced from ambushment. See also Buschment.] Ambush. —1531 Bell. Boece II. 161.
Thir men … entrit at sindry partis thairof [= of the walls], with sindry abuschementis a1586 Lindsay MS. 84 b.
That thair Innemeis ly not in abuschementis