A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1963 (DOST Vol. III).
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*(Kepe-,) Keep-house, n. (In the later dial. (1773) a storeroom: cf. quot.) —1692 Edgar Old Ch. Life 44.
[In Mauchline prison or what is called in one of the session minutes the] keep house
