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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
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Quotation dates: 1568-1602
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Buriar, Burier, n. Also: burear, buireare. [e.m.E. burier (1535).] One who buries or helps to bury. 1568 Edinb. B. Rec. III. 254.
For euerie ane of the … clengeris and the burearis of the deid 1585 Ib. IV. 432.
That nane be … careit vpoun mennis bakis or sledis for sweirnes of the buriares 1587 Ib. 506.
The said thesaurer … to mak the lugeis for the fowle clengeris, buriers and pvre 1602 Elgin Rec. II. 101.
Robert Keith delatis Johne Bandoquhie a buriar of a bairne be the waye betuix this and Glakmarres
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