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: 1561-1581, 1669
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Cut-tail(l)it, -tailȝed, a. [e.m.E. cut-tayled (1530).] Having the tail docked. —1561 Criminal Trials I. 411.
The thefteous steling of ane blak cut-tailit horse 1581 Protocol Book of J. Robertsone 18.
Ane cutt taillit ox, price thairof ten merkis 1669 Kelso Baillie Ct. 47 b.
Ane bay broun horse cutt tailȝed
