A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
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Crem-, Creym-stowp, n. ? A cream-pot. —1540 Maxwell Mem. I. 408.
In creym stowppis, iij 1640 Rec. Old Aberd. I. 69.
The haill crem stowpis in auld Aberdeen salbe brocht to the cross … to sie the sufficiencie
