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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: 1569-1573

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(Metar,) Meit(t)ar, n. [e.m.E. meeter (1646), f. Met(e v.1] One who meets; here, one who attends an arranged meeting as delegate. —1569-73 Bann. Memor. 239.
For the first meitting, … to conclude with the tua ambassadouris vpoun the nixt meitting; and thir meitaris [T. meittaris] to be alterit as occasioune sall serue

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