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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: 1475-1587, 1640, 1692

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Mawar, n. Also: mawer, malwar. [Maw v.; cf. ME. moware (c 1440).] One who cuts hay etc. with a scythe, a mower.c1475 Acts of Schir William Wallace xi. 135.
V malwaris als, that Wallace selff with met
1519 Wigtown B. Ct. 80 a.
The vrangus stopping of his twa mawaris
1530 Master of Works Accounts (ed.) I. 44.
To Lowre Marche mawar
1530 Ib.
For i new syth to the mawar
1550 Treasurer's Accounts IX. 433. 1565 Curle Coll. MS. (Reg. H.).
The said medow … to … put mawarris thairto
1587 Carmichael Etym. 22.
A mawer of hay
1640 Kirkcaldy Presb. 183.
Act anent sherars and mawers and their fees
1692 Foulis Acc. Bk. 148.
For a quart eall for the mawers and twiners of the hay

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