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: 1558-1602
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Interteinar, -teiner, -teaner, n. [Var. of Intertainer.] An entertainer. —1558-66 Knox II. 237.
The elderis and deaconis … must be sober, humill, luifaris and interteinaris of concord and peace 1581 Reg. Privy C. III. 432.
Sum … hes spred brutis … that he is an interteaner of papistis 1602 Dundonald Par. Rec. 15.
John Mackerell … and his wyf, … resetteris and interteineris of the maisterfull begger … John Burg
