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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: 1502-1654

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Bound, n.2 Also: bwnd, bond; bowne; bunne. [ME. bonde (15th c.), Flem. bond.] A bundle, esp. of flax.1502 Halyb. 274.
Pakit in the samyn [poncion] 6 boundis of lynt, cost 3 ½ g. ilk bond
1513 Treasurer's Accounts IV. 509.
iij bwnd of wyir. [at] viij s. the bound
1555 Criminal Trials I. 380.]
[34 boundis of hemp
1567 Edinburgh Testaments I. 29 b.
Thre boundis of lynt weyand foure stanis
1567 Ib. 59.
Twa boundis of quhite threid
1567 Ib. 338 b.
xxiij boundis holyflask lint, euery bound ane stane & ane half
1584 Ib. XIII. 334 b.
Ane bound of lynt weyand ane stane & ten pund wecht
1593 Ib. XXV. 130 b.
Ane bound of pasmentis of silk, contening in wecht tua pund xj vnce wecht
1596 Edinb. B. Rec. V. 168.
A buirding or bound of lynt, [to pay] twa penneis
1610 Edinburgh Testaments XLVI. 98 b.
Tuentie thrie bownes of hesp threid
1614 Dundee Shipping L. 252.
Ane bound hemp
1654 Glasgow B. Rec. II. 287.
Certane [iron] splitts, for aucht schillings the bound
1654 Elgin Rec. I. 297.
He sold two bunnes of lint to Francis Ross wyfe

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