A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1951 (DOST Vol. II).
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Gustard(e, n. [App. altered from ostarde or bustard by association with Guse n.1] A bustard. —Boece Hist. (1575) 7 b.
Præter hæc aues in Merchia nascuntur Gustardes vernaculo sermone dictæ 1531 Bell. Boece I. p. xlii.
[There] is ane uthir kind of fowlis in the Mers … namit gustardis als mekle as ane swan 1596 Dalr. I. 39/27.
Is ȝit ane foul … quhilke the gustarde thay cal 1655 Moffet & Bennet Health's Improv. (1746) 174.
Bustards, so called for their slow pace and heavy flying; or as the Scots term them Gusestards; that is to say, slow geese
