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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
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Quotation dates: 1580-1649
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Brod, Brode, v.2 [f. Brod n.2]
1. tr. To fit or furnish with a board or boards. 1580 Edinb. B. Rec. IV. 175.
To … enlairge the wyndow … , brod the samyn, and to sylour the said librarie 1622 Master of Works Accounts XVI. 13 b.
Tua windowis that is … new brodit and new glassit 1623 Rec. Univ. Aberd. 282.
The wther thrie windowis … to be glessit and broddit 1649 Inverness Presb. 148.
The windows to be brodded and glasend
2. To affix on a board. 1583 Edinb. B. Rec. IV. 310.
To caus mak ane perfyte tabill in parchement of the townis customes in Leyth, and to brode the sam
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