A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
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Clanman, n. [f. Clan n.] A clansman. —1607 Reg. Great S. 721/2.
Terras de Blaktarres … in limitibus Scotie et Anglie jacentes … que specialiter in estate quondam per Scottos, Armestrangis et alios gentilicios lie clanmen dictorum limitum possidebantur pro meliore pastura [etc.]