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First published 1951 (DOST Vol. II).
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Quotation dates: 1475-1576, 1650
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Fillet, Fillat, n. Also: filleit, fillit, fyllat, fyllot, fillot. [e.m.E. fillet, ME. fyllet, filet (a 1327), OF. filet.]
1. The loin; pl. the loins. c1475 Acts of Schir William Wallace x. 383.
He … On the fyllat full sternly straik that sle 1513 Doug. viii. iii. 201.
Eneas … Dyd of perpetual oxin fillettis [v.r. fyllatis, fillatis] eyt 1533 Boece xii. viii. 468 b.
Edrite … with ane spete of irne schot him throw the bare fillettis 1558 Inverness B. Rec. I. 20.
The said Donald[is] wyf had slane the said hors with bastone treys on his fyllottis 1576 Digest Justiciary Proc. I. 34.
[They] hort & woundit him in his filleitis behind his bak 1650 Stirling Ant. IV. 154.
[Margaret gripped her] about the ffillits
2. A strip of wood. 1532 Master of Works Accounts II. 46.
Estland burd for mullaris & fillatis to the clething of the myd chalmeris
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