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: 1375, 1520-1573
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(Graning,) Granyng, vbl. n. Also: grayning, -yng. [Early ME. graning (1205), OE. gránung.] Groaning.1375 Barb. xiii. 157.
Sic gyrnyng, granyng, and so gret A noyis, as thai can othir bet c1520-c1535 Nisbet III. 340/22.
With graynyngis [Tynd. groninges] that passis mannis vtherance 1569-73 Bann. Memor. 337.
He heiris a grit noyse … , whidder it was of speiche, of grayning, or rumbling, I can not tell
