A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1971 (DOST Vol. IV).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.
Quotation dates: 1562-1578, 1636-1700
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Marking, -eing, Merking, vbl. n. [ME. and e.m.E. marking(e, -yng(e, merkynge (14th c.).] a. The action of Mark v. in various senses: Plotting or marking with boundary-marks; stamping or branding with a mark of identification, attestation, etc.; marking with sea-marks. b. In coal-mining: Marking-on (a (? new) shaft),?. Also comb. in marking-one-aill, ale provided for celebrating this. c. Attrib. (in sense 3 of Mark v.) in marking-stik, -stone, and Marking-irne.a. (1) 1572 Acts III. 73/2.
And vpoun the said merking and designatioun the archibischope … sall gif his testimoniall(2) 1562 Proceedings of Society of Antiquaries LXXII. 225.
Questioun … amangis [the pewterers] … anent the trying and marking of the said weschell 1639 Cochran-Patrick Coinage II. 112.
The haill silver and gold plait … athyr of Scottis makeing and marking [etc.] 1647 Aberd. B. Rec. IV. 82.
That all ydle … beggars be … banished the toun wnder the payne of … marking of them with ane burne yron(3) 1578 Rec. Convention of Royal Burghs I. 57.
The … marking off the best deip for the mair assurit entrie of oure schippisb. 1683 Sheriffhall Coal Accompt 27 Jan.
For marking one aill to the sink upon the jowall coall 1696–1700 Wauchopes 36.
For marking on of the stair sink a gallon of aill, 16sc. 1636 Edinburgh Testaments LVII. 259 b.
Ane kirne staff with ane marking stik 1684 Sibbald Scot. Illustr. iii. 42.
Rubrica the marking stone, nostratibus keel dicitur
