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A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)

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First published 1963 (DOST Vol. III).
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Lard, Laird, n.2 [ME. and e.m.E. lard(e, OF. lard bacon.] Swine's fat, (fat) bacon or pork; lard. —1510–11 Rentale Dunkeld. MS. 109.
Lard xlv s. pro duos annos 1538 Treas. Acc. VII. 40.
Gevin for jm lard, price of the hundreth viij frs. x s … ., Item, gevin for iiij puncheonis to put the said lard in, and for salt 1539 Ib. 59. 1582 Edinb. Test. XI. 355 b.
Ten stane wecht of laird price of the stane xl s. 1591 Ib. XXIII. 266.

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