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A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)

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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.

Bore, Boir, n.2 [ME. bore, southern form of Bare n.] A boar.a1500 Colk. Sow i. 159.
Mony long tuthit bore And mony galt come befoir
Ib. 446.
This pig quhen he a boir wes
1513 Doug. x. xii. 47.
Lyke to the strenthy sangler or the bore
1535 Stewart 9780.
As ane boir als bald
c1590 J. Stewart 47/155.
As the ours, the sangleir, or the boir

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