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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.

Drink-money, n. [Drink n. 1 c.] = Drink silver. —1646 4th Rep. Hist. MSS. App. 510/1.
Gevin … for peying off of the haill servands … by and attoure the drink money 1672 Foulis Acc. Bk. 10.
To the men that makis the cassay betwixt the ferrie and Cramond in drinkmoney

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