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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
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Quotation dates: 1529-1680
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Bouting, Bowting, vbl. n. Also: bouttin, boutene; bowtin, -yne; butting, buting. [Northern ME. bowtyng (1452) and e.m.E. bowting (1582), e.m.E. boulting, ME. bultinge: see Bout v.] Boulting of flour. Used attrib. with claith, fat, hous, tun.So ME. bowtyng cloth (c 1500), bultynge cloth (1452), boultynge house (1532), bulting ton (1485).(1) 1561 Inv. Wardrobe 128.
Ane litle pece of blak bowting claith a1568 Scott xxxiv. 87.
Quhen thay haif gottin blawdis With Venus bowtyne cleth [M. boutting clayth] 1567 Edinburgh Testaments I. 59.
Ane steik … of bouttinclayth 1574 Ib. III. 143 b.
Fyftene elnis boutene claith 1597 Bk. Rates 3.
Buting claith the eln1680 Blackness Customs 4 b.
Fyve half peis butting cloath valu tuenty pund Scotts(2) 1566 Protocol Book of Thomas Johnsoun 102.
Ane bowtyne fatt; ane laven trouch1653 Edinburgh Testaments LXVII. 146.
Ane buting fat(3) 1616 Edinburgh Testaments XLIX. 45 b.
In the mylnes and boutting hous(4) 1529 Reg. Great S. 178/1.
A bowting tun 1568 Edinburgh Testaments I. 168.
John Crawfurd baxter … had … ane bowtin twne 1574 Glasgow B. Rec. I. 33.
Ane bouting twne
