A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
Hide Quotations Hide Etymology
About this entry:
First published 1983 (DOST Vol. V).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.
(Peceing,) Peisyng, vbl. n. (e.m.E. and ME. pesinge (Piers Plowman), peecynge, pesing (1545), vbl. n. of ME. and e.m.E. pese (Wyclif), pece, etc., to mend by adding or by joining pieces, to patch or to join up the pieces of a thing.) —1581–2 Elgin Rec. I. 165.
For the peisyng of tua pair of schankis to George Grant … xij d.
