A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1963 (DOST Vol. III).
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Quotation dates: 1553-1657
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Herring, n. Also: herreine; hirring; harring, -eng. [e.m.E. herring, late ME. herryng (1469), var. of Hering n., with vowel-shortening.] Herring.(a) 1553–4 Edinb. Old Acc. I. 110.
The Quenis lettres … tuiching … paking of hirring 1600 Reg. Privy C. VI. 177.
The uplifting of the assyse herring and dewitie thairof 1618 Edinburgh Testaments L. 52.
The defunctis part of ane blok of herreine(b) 1598 Stirling Ant. III. 308.
vijxx eist sie harreng, … xx west sie harreng 1657 Lamont Diary 108.
Few harring, … there sould be no dreueattrib. 1581 Rec. Convention of Royal Burghs I. 114 marg.
Salmond and herring bind
