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: 1601, 1657-1682
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Bouling, Boulling, vbl. n. [e.m.E. bowling (1535).] Bowling. Chiefly attrib. with alley or grein. 1601 Elgin Rec. II. 91.
Na pastyme to be usit sic as caitching, bouling, the kyles or poirtboules 1657 Balfour Ann. II. 167.
The King … playing at boulles, in the bouling alev 1657 Wemyss Corr. 102.
Intending to meack a boulin-grin 1663–6 Household Bks. Abp. Sharp 41 b.
To ane old watter man in the boulling greene 1682 5th Rep. Hist. MSS. App. 610/1.
To a man keips the bouling grein
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