A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1983 (DOST Vol. V).
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Quotation dates: 1502-1503, 1621-1639
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(Pal-,) Pail-, Payl-, Pealling, vbl. n. [ME. (Chaucer) and e.m.E. palyng(e.] a. The action of constructing and enclosing with a fence. b. concr. A paling, a fence made of pales. —1502 Treasurer's Accounts II. 345.
To ger fell tymir to the payling of the park 1502–3 Ib. 355.
In pairt of payment of the pailing of the park 1621 Acts IV. 665/1.
The office of bigging & vphalding of the saidis wallis dyikis and pealling of the said medow 1639 Ib. V. 615/1.
Petitioune for intertaining the pealling about the park of Falkland
