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: 1639-1643, 1700+
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Ladder, v. [Late var. of Ledder v.1: cf. e.m.E. laddring vbl. n. (1665).] tr. To scale with a ladder; to mount (a building) with a ladder. —1639 Baillie I. 195.
Dalkeith … was ladderit, the munition … seazed on 1642–3 D. D. Black Hist. Brechin (1867) 232.
[To Alexander Talbert for] laddering the church 1710 Stirling B. Rec. II. 350.
For laddering the school brewhous and securing it against a great wind
