A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1971 (DOST Vol. IV).
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Mounts, var. of Mons (the name of the cannon). —1637 Monro Exped. ii. 215.
Such as Mounts on the castle of Edenburrough being so wide … that a man did get a child within Ib.
It is a huge great peece, from whence did come our old Scots proverbe, The Devill shoote Mounts in your arse
