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: 1400, 1533-1602, 1681
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Crag-, Craigstane, n. Also: craig stayne, stone. [ME. craggestone (c 1440), f. Crag n.1] A detached rock; a large stone.c 1400 Newbattle Chart. (Reg. H.).
Ane pec[e] land … diuidit be crag stanis set for the marches 1533 Boece iii. xvii. 115 b.
Thai … in myris and meressis full of crag stanis … provokit the batell 1568 Grant Chart. 387.
Fray thatt sowththerlie … to ane grett craig stayne … and fray that … to ane vther merche stayne 1602 Reg. Great S. 485/2.
Lineallie be the sey side to ane grit craigstane being inwith the fluid mark callit Craignaskarrell 1681 Stirling Comm. Good 161.
Expensis payed to … workmen for wining of craig stones and for leading of the same
