A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1983 (DOST Vol. V).
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Padill, Paidell, Peaddill, v. [f. Padill n.1 Cf. Patil)l v.] a. tr. To clean (floors, etc.) by scraping. b. intr. To scrape clean (a salt-pan). —a. 1556–7 Edinb. Old Acc. II. 69 (see Padill n. 1 (a)).
Padill 1628 Edinb. Univ. Chart. 118.
The saids bursars ar appointed to paidell the staires and entrances to the scoolles —b. a 1679 Wemyss in Sc. Diaries 125.
I give [the salters] … that wiek they peaddill … ane dousen of leads of colles frie to themselfs
