A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1983 (DOST Vol. V).
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Ortyng, var. of Hurting vbl. n. (damaging). —1527 Wigtown B. Ct. 199 a.
Fore trublans of his hovs & ortyng of his traye that suld be tak to his hous
