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First published 1971 (DOST Vol. IV).
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Quotation dates: 1613, 1687-1690
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(Noust,) Nowst, Newst, n. [Norw. dial. naust(r), nøst, ON. naust a boat-shed, dock. In the mod. dial. of Shetl., Orkn. and Caithn. as noost, noust, nowst, noast.] In Orkney: A boatstance or ? boat-shed on the shore; a walled trench at the edge of a beach on which a boat is hauled up. — 1613 Orkney & Shetl. Ct. Bk. (ed.) 76.
The saidis boitismen … returnit the said boit to the nowst out of the quhilk schoe wes tane 1687 T. Brown Diary 48.
William Ewinsone … found her lying … beneath the boat nowst in Wytfoord 1690 Ib. 63.
Ther wes a great boat blowen owt of the newst at the Air
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