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First published 1983 (DOST Vol. V).
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Pan-, Pane-crach(e, -crats, n. [Pan n.1 6 and Cratch(e n. Also in the later (18th c.) Sc. dial. and cf. mod. Eng. panscratch (also -scale).] Appar., the scale that formed on the bottom of a salt-pan and which was scraped off and used for making rough-cast and for filling up joints. —1622 M. Works Acc. (ed.) II. 142.
For furneishing of lyme sand hair and panecrache for bigging and making watterticht of the tua grit tarrassis 1678 Sc. Ant. IX. 107.
Pan crach 1683–90 Soc. Ant. LIV. 239.
For pan-crats to the church walls and the steeple, and for the portage thereof from Pittinweeme to St Andrews
