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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: 1548, 1637

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(Lairy,) Lari-, a. (? North. ME. (Rolle) lairy, layery and mod. Sc. and north. Eng. dial. lairy boggy, miry, swampy, f. Lair n.2: in Older Sc. only in the place-name Laripot(s).) —1548 Dumfries & Galloway Soc. 3 Ser. III. 198.
[The] corn landis of the Laripots 1637 Ib. 330.
For the casting of the Laripot stanks

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