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A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)

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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
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Quotation dates: 1534-1676

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Calfing, Calfyne, n. Also: calffing; calfein, calfine. [Reduced from Calfating.] Material for caulking or stopping.1534 Treasurer's Accounts VI. 235.
For vj stanis of hardis … For iiij stanis of calfyne
1580 Inverness B. Rec. I. 281.
[He] was constranit … to mak calffing to his boit of the sark was on his bak
1613 Proceedings of Society of Antiquaries X. 222.
For calfing to calfat the schip
1617–8 Master of Works Accounts XIV. 10 b.
A stane and a half of calfein to the ordinance
1645 Tulliallan Coal Wks. 146 b.
For hardis for calfing of the quhill
1676 Blair Autob. 587.
A leak broke up in the keel, which was stopped with taylies of beef and other such calfine as was at hand

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