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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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Gyle house, n. Also: gyll hous, gile hous. [e.m.E. gile howse (1567), ME. gylhows, -hous (1335).] The house in which wort was set to cool. —1529 M. Works Acc. I. 9 b.
Duvatis … to the mending of the gile hous in the abbay 1576 MS. Prot. Bk. 178 b.
The gyll hous with ane dur and bandis 1662 Lamont Diary 151.
One of the plowmen … sneding tries on the north dyke … for the gylehouse 1671 Ib. 224.
The gylehowse in the inner close

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