A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
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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
