A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
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Creil(l-, Creelful, n. Also: creillfewl, creallfull. [Crele n.] The fill of a creel.1561 Aberd. B. Rec. I. 334.
For the quhilkis he to haf ane penny of euery creilfull of fysche 1579 3rd Rep. Hist. MSS. App. 402/2.
[To receive] yeirlie ane wedder, ane creill full of peittis, and ane sled full of stray 1580 Reg. Great S. 7/2.
30 lie creill-fewlis glebarum cum aliis debitis 1587 Soc. Ant. II. 349.
To a creelful of coilis, and the beiring of them to the stepil 1669 Aberd. B. Rec. IV. 254.
To wptake for ilk creall full of … fishes … , four pennies Scotis 1693 Hawick Arch. Soc. (1868) 37/2.
She bought from James Thompson … ane creillful of salt
