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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.

Quotation dates: 1549-1569

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File, Fyle, v. [ME. fyle, file (14th c.), vile (a 1225), f. File,n.1] tr. To cut with a file. —1549 Complaynte of Scotland 28/7.
Ane file is ane instrument to file doune yrn 1554–5 Edinb. B. Rec. II. 298.
For mending of … loks quhilks wer fylit and brokin with presoneris 1569 Protocol Book of Gilbert Grote 74.
Ony lok smytht wark, or ony vther fylit werk

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