A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.
Quotation dates: 1420, 1475, 1532-1571
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Burdin, a. Also: burdyn, -ing, -en. [ME. borden (1454), f. bord Burd(e n.1] Made of boards.c1420 Wynt. viii. 2063 (W).
Wp he bruschit that burdin dure c1475 Acts of Schir William Wallace iv. 509.
Burdyn duris and lokis … , All werk of tre thai brynt wp in a fyr 1532 Ex. Processes (Reg. H.) No. 5 (Elphinston v. Innes).
Ane dowble burdin dur with bandis and crukis of irne 1566 Protocol Book of Thomas Johnsoun 103.
Tua doubill burdin yettis 1568 Waus Corr. I. 51.
[They] in his absence … brak up sevin burdin dueris of his said place, and perforce enterit thairin 1571 Lanark B. Rec. 64.
The duris to haf burding duris
