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: 1513-1586
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Cap, v. [Of obscure origin. Cf. Cap,n.3]
1. intr. To sail, keep a course.1513 Doug. iii. viii. 126.
The port, quhamto we cappit, wes ful large
2. ? To drift.a1570-86 Shaw Maitland Folio MS cxlvi. 14–5.
Thair may cum stormes and caus a lek, That ȝe man cap be wynd and waw 1535 Stewart 4154.
Sum with ane tors la capand on the wynd … Sum in the wynd la capand thair so he Quhill scho tuke in than bayth at lufe and le
