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: 1616
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Kramestock, appar. error for kranestock (the stock or support of a crane): see Cran, Crane n.2 1 (a) quot. 1506–7 and Stok n. —1616 Edinb. B. Rec. VI. 378.
For iron wark, … to the making of the kramestock and mending the cran