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: 1557-1563
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Cloff, Cloif, n.3 Also pl. clow(i)s. [Of obscure origin; in later dial. as clove.] ‘That which separates what are called the bridgeheads’ of a mill (J).1557–8 Edinb. Old Acc. I. 260.
For making of iiij bands to four cloffs 1557–8 Ib.
To band the cloiffis with iij stane vj pund Spanȝe irn 1557–8 Ib. 263.
For half stane of irn to band the cloffes to the myln 1563 Ib. 464.
Ane new brig … and new clowis
