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

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First published 1983 (DOST Vol. V).
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Ostlar, Oistlar-hous(e, n. Also: ostler-, ostlair-, oastler-, oislair-, oisler-. [Ostlar(e n. 2; also hostelar-hous, Hostilar n. b, hostlar-hous, Hostlar n. 3 (1), and cf. MF. maison hosteliere. Appar. only Sc.: cf. e.m.E. ostehouse (c 1580), host-house.] A hostelry, inn, tavern. = Ostillary n. b, Ostlary(e n. 2, Ostrie n.1559 Aberd. Sheriff Ct. I. 159.
Within the oistlair house
c1475 Wall. (1570) iii. 71.
Oistlair hous
1589 Edgar Old Church Life II. 95.
[That their minister went to] the commown oistlar houses daylie to his four houres
1602 Glasgow Weavers 115.
Quhatsumever persones … sall pas with the dekin … in ony ostlar hous and drink [etc.]
1605 Ellon Presb. 55.
[He] wes chargit to forbeir the oistlar hous, carting, dyceing, civill trysting
1608 Dunferm. B. Rec. II. 47.
The dissordinat vaging and drinking of the servands in ostler housis nyt and day
1609 Reg. Privy C. VIII. 807.
Oislair hous
1610 Crim. Trials III. 92.
In an oisler-hous besyde the Langholme
1615 Inverurie I. 197.
Ostlar house
1628 Reg. Privy C. 2 Ser. II. 534.
Oastler hous
1641 Strathendrick 5.
Oistlar house
a1651 Calderwood IV. 679.
To retire to an oastler hous in the toun, to gett his dinner
1670 Kirkcudbr. Sheriff Ct. Processes No. 71 (22 Nov.).
To goe to the ostler hous to drink

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