A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1963 (DOST Vol. III).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.
Quotation dates: 1531-1640
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Ingettin(g, vbl. n. Also: -gaitting. [Get v.1] Getting in, collecting (rents, dues, taxes, debts, etc.)(a) 1531 Reg. Privy S. II. 123/1.
Sa lang as he remanis in the Ilis for ingetting of the malis and dewiteis tharof 1532 Reg. Soltre 108.
Anent the ingetting … off the teindis and deviteis 1597 Acts IV. 146/2.
The chairges in ingetting of the samyn [tax], albeit it mycht haue bene ingadderit vpoun far les expens 1609 Edinburgh Testaments XLV. 219.
For helping of hir bairnis in ingetting of hir dettis 1622-6 Bisset I. 104/36.
To poynd and distrenȝe … for ingetting of the contributioun 1640 Kirkcudbr. Min. Bk. 138.
Assisting of the collectores … for ingetting of what is dew to the publict(b) 1570 Fam. Rose 255.
To assist … the berar heirof … in the ingaitting of my mailis and dewiteis 1575 Misc. Maitl. C. I. 126.
To tak ordour for the ingaitting of the contrabusioun to the puir
b. ? Carrying or conveying in (something material).1547 Hist. Liddisdale I. App. lxxx.
Being with him in cumpanye tua chylder, for thair labourres maid upoun the ingetting of the artalyere
