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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
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Quotation dates: 1473, 1537-1597, 1649-1684
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Corn-land, Corne-, n. [ME. corneland, cornlond (1387).] Land on which corn may be grown.1473 Acts Lords Auditors 24/2.
He sall haue for all the days of his lyfe vj acris of corne land of inland, and ij acris of medow 1537 Rec. Kinloss Mon. 145.
It sal be leisum to the said Patrick … to eit the girs of the said corn land 1549 Complaynte of Scotland 44/24.
There he set his felecite on the manuring of the corne land 1577 Reg. Cupar A. II. 130.
Certane faldis of corne land, allegit be the said George to pertene to him in commonte 1597 Reg. Great S. 186/1.
Fra the marche burne of Craigskene to the heidis of the corneland of Corrivinsocht 1649 Peebles Gleanings 273.
To redd the ground of the north mylne … to the balk of the corne land ewest thairto 1684 Glamis Bk. Rec. 34.
The north and middle greens, clouts of corn land
