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A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)

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First published 1971 (DOST Vol. IV).
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Mule, Mole, n.4 Also: moel, moill, moole, mull, mould, mylve. [Gael. maol; cf. also Icel. múli.]

A promontory or headland.Chiefly or only in specific place-names, as Mule of Kintyre, of Galloway.(a) 1307 Cal. Doc. II. 516.
Le Moel de Kentyr 1326 Exch. R. I. 57.
Circa le Mole cum vna naui 1375 Barb. iii. 696.
And by the Mole (H. Mule] thai passyt ȝar 1429 Sc. Hist. Rev. XXXI. 145.
The flot was rinning about the Moill(b) 1457 Exch. R. VI. 348.
De le Mule de Gartariyan 1533 Boece i. viii. 52 b.
Ane heich montane ane grete space within the sey callit the Mule 1564 Reg. Privy C. I. 306.
The boit liand at Garvellane in the Mule of Galloway 1596 Dalr. I. 56/17.
The heich hill, quhilke thay cal the Mule of Cantyre Brus i. 188 (H).
Mulesnuke [MSS. Mullyr-snwk, Mullyrrysnwk] 1631 Acts V. 237/2.
Dumbartane Firth lying betuix the Mule of Kintyre and Mule of Gallouay and the course within the saids twa points 16.. Macfarlane's Geog. Coll. III. 196.(c) a 1650 Buchanan's Hist. MS. Index (Edinb. Univ. Lib. *R. 20/12).
Mula the Moole of Galloway(d) 1564 Reg. Privy S. V. i. 471/2.
Quatuor marcatas terrarum de lie Mull de Kintyre 1632 Lithgow Trav. 495.
Betweene Dungsby Head … and the … Mould of Galloway(e) 1632 Stirling's Royal Lett. II. 612.
And, for the Clyde, that non fische between the Mylves of Galloway and Kintyre

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