A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1971 (DOST Vol. IV).
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Quotation dates: 1461-1476
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(Miln-,) Myl(l)ing, -yng, n. [Miln n. 1.] ? The other works (as mill-dam, lade, etc.), or ? the pertinents generally, of a mill. (Appar. only in Peebles B. Rec.). — 1461 Peebles B. Rec. I. 140.
And for this appointment settyn … of myllis and mylyngis as is befor vryttyn … the said Andro … sal byg the myl and mylling vnder the Castelhyl wyth the supple of the commonitis of the said burgh, … and the said Andro vphaldand the forsaidis myllis and myllyngis … quhyl he lefis 1476 Ib. 176, 1478 Ib. 184.
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