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: 1502-1513, 1580-1646
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Ate, Ait, etc., the singular of Atis ‘oats’, used attrib. with land, rede (reed), riddil, sawing, strae. See also Ate-brede, etc.1502 Acts Lords of Council MS. XII. 84.
Ane bere riddill, … ane ait riddill 1513 Doug. i. Prol. 505.
I … that in the small ait reid Tonyt my sang 1580 Edinburgh Testaments VII. 350 b.
His duelling hous, … croftis, … aitland and beirland 1618 Linlithgow Pal. 343.
For 23 threves aitt strae 1646 Melrose R. Rec. I. 114.
In aitt sawing time
