A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
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*Bertomaster, n. [? LG. börgmester.] A magistrate. —1487 Aberd. B. Rec. I. 414.
To writ to the toune of Danskyne and to the bertomasteris, &c., of that ilk
