A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
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Bushe, reduced form of ambushe Ambusch n. —a1578 Pitsc. II. 250/22.
My Lord of Mortoun hewand ane bushe of horsmen nocht fra thame twa mylles