A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1951 (DOST Vol. II).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.
Quotation dates: 1587-1632
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Devalling, ppl. a. [f. as Devalling,vbl.n.] Descending; sloping. —1587-99 Hume 153/48.
A fair palace situat … on the head of a devalling banke 1632 Lithgow Trav. viii. 360.
The pendicles of a flat devalling height 1632 Ib. x. 506.
Impregnate forts, devalling floods
