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First published 1963 (DOST Vol. III).
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Quotation dates: 1375, 1547
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(Lade-,) Laid-, Layd-, Leid-man, n. [Lade n.1: cf. e.m.E. lode man (c 1515). Cf. also Lodman.] A man in charge of a pack-horse. — 1375 Barb. viii. 466.
The layd [E. laid] men that persauit weill Thai kest thair ladis doun in hy … And in gret hy thair hors hint thai, And stert apon thame 1547 Stirling B. Rec. I. 50.
The rouim is nocht convenient … that nother hors men, futmen, nor leid men may gudlie pas by but cummir
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