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A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)

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First published 1951 (DOST Vol. II).
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Quotation dates: 1499-1627

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Girsill, n.1 Also: gyr-, gerssill. [Var. of Grissill n.] A grilse.1499 Acts Lords of Council II. 326.
Twa lastis of salmond of ald fisch and na gerssillis
1516 Ib. MS. XXVIII. 43.
Fyfte barell salmond and gyrsillis
1566 Acts Jas. III, an. 1469, c. 45.
For the multiplicatioun of fishe, salmound, girsillis and trowtis
1601 Reg. Great S. 442/2.
Duodenam lie girsillis eorundem rubrorum piscium salmonum
1627 Edinburgh Testaments LIV. 147 b.
In the corfhous of Spay xxj last … salmond & girsillis

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