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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
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Quotation dates: 1531-1633
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Capercailȝe, -calȝe, n. Also: cappercallȝe; caperkealȝie, -keillȝie, -caley. [Gael. capull coille ‘horse of the wood’.] The wood-grouse.1531 Bell. Boece I. p. xlii.
[The] capercailye, ane foul mair than ane ravin, quhilk leiffis allanerlie of barkis of treis 1553 Edinb. B. Rec. II. 185.
The best capercalye, xij d. a1578 Pitsc. I. 337/6.
With blak cok and murefoull and cappercallȝes 1570 Leslie De Orig. Scot. (1675) 24.
Avis quaedam rarissima capercalze, id est sylvester equus vulgo dicta 1596 Dalr. I. 39/11.
A certane foul and verie rare called the capercalȝe to name with the vulgar peple, the horse of the forrest 1630 Gordon Earld. Sutherland 3.
In these forests … ther is great store of partriges, pluivers, capercaleys, … murefowls [etc.] 1633 Breadalbane Lett. (Reg. H.) No. 493.
That we may haue some vennisone and caperkealȝies frome ȝow vpone our nixt adverteisement
