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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
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Quotation dates: 1400-1499, 1570-1627
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(Bere-,) Beir-corn, n. Also: beircorne, bear corn, bair coirn. [Bere n.2 So e.m.E. beere corne (1591), beare corn (1601). barley.] a. A grain of barley. b. Barley. 14.. Acts I. 309/2.
Efter the lenth of iii bear cornys gud and chosyn 1570 Elgin Rec. I. 124.
The deipnes of the lenth of ane bair coirn 1616 Edinburgh Testaments XLIX. 185.
Ane steik of beircorne fusteane 1623 Ib. LI. 319 b.
Fyve elnes … of claith of beircorne cullour 1627 Ib. LIV. 167 b.
Sevin ellis quhyte beircorne at xx s. the elne
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