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Cart, Cairt, n.2 Also: carte. [ME. carte (Gower), e.m.E. carte, cart, F. carte. In sense 1 only Sc. See also Kart n.2]
1. A playing card. Usu. in plural.(a) 1488 Treas. Acc. I. 95.
To the King himself to play at the cartis Ib. 100.
To play at the dys and cartis 1497 Ib. 350.
Giffin to the King to play at the cartis with the Spanȝartis at Norem, xx vnicornis 1504 Ib. II. 455.
To the king to the cartis with Lord Dakir c1500-c1512 Dunb. xxxix. 11.
Thair is no play bot cartis and dyce, And all for caus of covetyce 1535 Stewart 3378; Ib. 13238.
All play the quhilk mycht mak discord, And speciallie the cartis and the dyce 1531 Bell. Boece II. 216.
Than wes not usit sic hant of dise and cartis as ar now usit c1550 Lynd. Meldrum 1050.
Till euerie solace he was abill, At cartis, and dyce, at ches, and tabill 1545 15th Rep. Hist. MSS. App. viii. 21.
And ever I happin … to play at cartis, dyse, tabblis, … wytht any man 1560 Rolland Seven S. 7560.
Scho may cast hir cartis in at the cleik Of the same sort 1581 Prot. Bk. J. Robertsone 16.
William Jak … oblegat him … to refond … fourty schillingis … for ilk tyme that he beis fundin playand at cartis or dys for the space of sewin ȝeiris 1584 Sat. P. xlv. 983.
With spreitis employed to everie vice, As whoredome, drincking, cartis, and dyce a1585 Polwart Flyt. 598.
Hee vsed both carts and dyce, And fled no kind of vyce a1605 Montg. Son. xx. 2.
Shaip ȝe to shift him lyk a pair of cartis 1605 Rec. Old Aberd. I. 37.
That na yeoung man … play at cartis, tabillis or dys 1695 Foulis Acc. Bk. 181.
Lost at carts and tables at Sauchie(b) 1556 Liber Calchou 483.
Be deliuerance maid to my Lordis self that samin tyme … playing at the cairtis vij lib. iiij s. c1500-c1512 Dunb. xxii. 68 (B).
Jok, … Can now draw him ane cleik of kirkis, With ane fals cairt in to his sleif 1558-66 Knox II. 60.
The soldiouris … fell to the dice and cairtis a1570-86 Maitland Maitl. F. xiv. 26.
Be na dysar nor playar at the cairtis Bot gif it be for pastyme and small thing a1578 Pitsc. I. 348/27.
To spend the teindis … on … ryottous bancating and wantoun playing at cairttis and dice a 1595 Skene Celtic Sc. III. 432.
All … debaitts that happenis to fall betwin pairties throw playing at cairtis or dyce 1599 Elgin Rec. II. 72.
Richert Cuming … is inhibit to haunt dycing or playing at the cairtis under the paynis of making his publict repentans 1623 Black Bk. Taymouth 376.
That he sall not play at cairtis and dyce … at no tyme hierefter
2. A chart or map; a geographical survey.(a) c1515 Asl. MS. I. 153/2.
Heir followis the diuisioun of all the warld callit the cart, schortly drawyn in Ynglis 1513 Doug. iii. iii. 100.
Palynurus … For al his cunnyng of schipman craft and cart Amyd the sey forȝet the richt way 1552 Reg. Privy S. I. 125.
The indent … maid anent the divisioun of the Debatabill land, … and the cart maid thairof 1566 Prot. Bk. T. Johnstoun 100.
Ane brodit cart contenyng all cuntras a1605 Montg. Flyt. 461.
To saill sure in a seiffe, but compas or cart Id. Misc. P. xliv. 21.
As by the carte men knoues the arte 1642 St. A. Presb. 6.
In drawing vp the bounds of this Presbyterie for Sir Johne Scotts carte 1659 Hay Diary 118.
I … read a little whyle upon Samsons carts 1680 Breadalbane P. (Reg. H.) Tours 2 b.
For some late pieces of geography, with the carts of France(b) 1578 Inv. Wardrobe 237.
Tua litle cairtis of the yle of Malt c1590 Fowler 197 lxiii. 6.
Thy words the mapp and cairt is [of my love] 1590 Burel Pilgr. ii. xi.
Gif that thou culd descryue the cairt, The way thou wald go richt 1618 Lithgow Poet. Rem. 12.
I had rather see on[e] land, Be true eye-sight, than all the worlde by cairt 1641 Misc. Spald. C. I. ii.
Haveing laitly sein certane cairttis of divers schyres of this our ancient kingdome sent heir from Ansterdam 1667 Edinb. Test. LXXIII. 86.
Ane cairt … and some small instruments belonging to ane seaman
b. A genealogical chart or table. 1586 Treas. Acc. MS. 105 b.
To ane Irland man for ane cairt of genologie
3. A card; a piece of paper or cardboard. 1578 Edinb. D. Guild Acc. 63.
For twelf stand of cairtis to be tikketis 1661 Aberd. B. Rec. IV. 200.
Draughting wpone ane meikle cairt of paper this burghe … and other pairts adjacent neir therto
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