A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1951 (DOST Vol. II).
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Dog stone. [e.m.E. (1640).] A piece of stone suitable for making a millstone. —1612 Bk. Rates 330.
Dog stones the last, … milne stones the peice