A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1983 (DOST Vol. V).
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Our-land, adv. [Cf. ME. overlond (Piers Plowman) over the country, e.m.E. overland (1589) by land; Our prep. 12.] Over or by land (as opposed to ‘by sea’). —c1475 Wall. iii. 235.
Thus stuff our land I fynde may nocht weill be; We mon ger bryng our wictaill be the se
