A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
Hide Quotations Hide Etymology
About this entry:
First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.
Quotation dates: 1398-1646
[0,0,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,0,0,0,0]
Clay, n. Also: claye, klay, cley, kley. [ME. cley, clay, OE. cléᵹ.] Clay. Cat and clay: see Cat n.2a1400 Legends of the Saints xlvi. 146.
The … dignite I … forsakis ay As vndire my fet I do clayc1420 Wynt. iv. 263.
Slyke and klay micht than be sene c1420 Wynt. iv. 267.
Throuch the depe slyk and the clay Haldand on the nerest way c1450-2 Howlat 981.
Suthly we se Thy nakit cors bot of clay, a foule carioun 1453 Misc. Spald. C. V. 50.
For reddyng of clay fra the key 1468 Peebles B. Rec. 158.
Yt was ordanyt … that na man sal leid na clay fra thin a1500 Henr. Fab. 1700.
Quhen columbie vp keikis throw the clay c1500-c1512 Dunb. Flyt. 211.
Thow bringis the Carrik clay to Edinburgh Corse, Upoun thy botingis 1513 Doug. vii. Prol. 54.
The plane stretis and euery hie way Full of floschis, dubbis, myre, and clay c1552 Lynd. Mon. 1702.
Sum holkit claye, sum brynt the tylde 1555 Peebles B. Rec. 218.
The holis … quhair he tuk the clay till his kill bigging 1590 Reg. Great S. 810/2.
To wyn quarrell and clay in the Deyn as uthirs nichtbouris … usis but ony latt (1614) Chron. Perth 15.
The … bow of the brige fell doun, being eveill biggit, fillit onlie with clay and ȝeard1642 Montgomery Mem. II. 294.
When ever … [I] lay doune this tabernaikell of klay 1646 Tulliallan Coal Wks. 197 b.
Johne Dreysdill, for ane watir spout biging and kley bering
b. Attrib. with barge, cullour, hill, mug, pot.1512 Treasurer's Accounts IV. 456.
ij dusan … of burdis for the clay bargis —1398 Reg. Great S. (1814) 253/2.
A via tendente uersus le Clayhill 1398 Ib.
Vie. .tendentis uersus le Clayhillis - 1513 Doug. viii. Prol. 95.
Thocht clay muggis crakkis —1511 Reg. Privy S. I. 336/1.
Preceptum remissionis Iohannis Strathachin in le Claypottis 1550 Reg. Cupar A. II. 76.
All and hale the fowr acris of land … with clay pottis, exceppand clay for neidis of our place 1558 Inverness Sheriff Ct. 76.
The landis gewin … for his part of the claye pottis —1595 Edinburgh Testaments XXVIII. 9.
Fyve elneis … of clay collour Lundoun braid claith
