A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
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Bent day, [Bent n.] A holiday given to schoolboys for the purpose of gathering bent. —1598 Edinb. B. Rec. V. 233.
That nane have power to gif the play or bent dayis bott the principall maister
