A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1951 (DOST Vol. II).
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*Grass-house, n. A house let to a grassman. —1699 Cramond Alves Ch. 24.
The heritors to be desyred to. . discharge their tenants from setting grass houses (as they are called) to strangers come out of the Highlands
