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: 1675-1700
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Pet(e)-, Peatship, n. [Pete n.3] = Petery n. —c 1675 Bk. Pasquils 225.
That his peatship could never be thought worth a groat a 1700 Ib. 185.
In seaven years petship e'er he wrote or spoke