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: 1420, 1501-1552
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Cistern(e, n. Also: cystern(e, systerne, cesterne. [ME. cistern (c 1300), sisterne, etc., OF. cisterne, L. cisterna.] A cistern. Also fig.c1420 Wynt. iv. 81.
Cysternys he gert be maid depe, Fylth or wattyr for to kepe c1420 Ib. v. 679.
The pape Cornelyus … Drew thame off that cysterne depe 1501 Doug. Pal. Hon. iii. 220.
This campioun saw I gang In a deip cisterne 1549 Complaynte of Scotland 126/28.
Quhen thai condampnit there brothere Iosept to dee in ane cesterne c1552 Lynd. Mon. 4950.
Ane laithlye loch, … ane systerne full of sodomye
