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: 1499-1672
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Pelit, Peld, ppl. a. Also: peil(l)it, -eit, -ed, peild, pealed, paled. [e.m.E. peeld(e wretched (c 1530), pield shaved, bald (1542), etc.; Pele v.Cf. also ME. and e.m.E. pillede (Piers Plowman A), pild (Wyclif), piled (Chaucer), pilled (15th c.), etc., f. Pill v.]
1. a. Stripped of possessions; destitute. b. Deprived of (one's) outer covering; bare, hairless, featherless, fleshless, stripped of foliage. c. fig.a., b. (1) a1500 Henr. III. 158/4 (M).
Behauld our heidis thre Oure holkit ene with pelit powis bair 1513 Doug. xiii. Prol. 33.
Vpgois the bak with hir pelit ledderyn flycht(b) c1500-c1512 Dunb. Flyt. 170 (B).
Thy pure pynit thrott peilit and owt of ply(c) c1500-c1512 Ib. 241 (M).
Peild gluttoun, ayr to Hillous 1535 Stewart 46329.
Bayth pynd and puir like ony peild tramort 1540 Lynd. Sat. 1355.
Vpoun thy peild harne pan a1568 Bannatyne MS 140 a/22.
Peild priclous a1605 Montg. Flyt. 482 (T) (see Pele v.1 3 d.). a1585 Polwart Flyt. 568 (T).
His peild pallat and vnpleasant powa1585 Polwart Flyt. 783.(2) predic. c1500-c1512 Dunb. lxi. 38 (M).
I heff run … On pastouris that ar plane and peld [: feild, eild] c1550 Rolland Court of Venus iv. 673.
For laik of pith he is sa puir and peild a1605 Montg. Flyt. 177 (T).
On ruittis … thow nurischit … Quhill that thow past both puir and peild Into Argylec. a1585 Polwart Flyt. 650 (H).
Thy peild preamables our prolixlie lests 1672 M. Bruce Rattling Dry Bones 33.
O so dry, o so pealed and o so wisened as your principles are
2. Of fish: Not treated (as by drying) and thereafter bulk packed.For further examples, see Pakkit ppl. a. (2).1554 Edinb. B. Rec. II. 203.
The pelit fische efferand thairto 1580 Exchequer Rolls XXI. 3.
£84 of 42000 cod called peild fische 1580 Ib. 4.
23 s. of 600 cod called pelit killing 1622 Rec. Convention of Royal Burghs III. 128.
That na peilled hering salbe mixed with pakkit hering and that the said peilled hering being pakkit salbe markit be the magistrattis quhair thai ar pakkit with the burnning yrne of the toun and the lettre P and that nane tak vpone hand to laidin anie of the said peilled hering vnmarkit 1626 Aberd. Council Lett. I. 240.
Anent the dischairging of schiping of packeit and peileit hering in ane bottome
