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A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)

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First published 1983 (DOST Vol. V).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.

Quotation dates: 1521-1589, 1646-1689

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Peper-, Pepir-, Pepper-quern, -curn, n. Also: peppir- and -quhern, -queirn, -quorne; -kurne, -cuirn, -corn. [Late north. ME. pepir qwern (1402–3), late ME. pepyr wherne, pepirwherne (Prompt. Parv.), north. e.m.E. peper querne (1564), e.m.E. pepper quern (1656), and in the later Sc. dial.] A manually operated machine for grinding pepper, a peppermill.Usually plur., sometimes in sing. concord, but chiefly in a pair (= set) of peper quernis.(1) 1521–2 Old Dundee II. 239.
A pair of pepir quernys
1561 Aberd. B. Rec. I. 336.
Ane pair of peper curnis
1563 Dumfries B. Ct. fol. 189.
Ane pair of pepir quernis
1570 Protocol Book of A. Millar 4 b.
Pepir queirnis
1571–2 Canongate Ct. Bk. 354.
Pepper cuirnis
1589 St. A. B. Ct. 10 June.
Ane pair off auld pepper kurneis with ane auld fute gang
1646 Edinburgh Testaments LXI. 266 b.
Ane pair of peppercornes
(2) 1534 Selkirk B. Ct. (ed.) 144.
The peper quhernes
(3) 1571 Misc. Spald. C. II. 79.
Four pepper quernis price vi ss. viii d.
1576 Edinburgh Testaments IV. 154 b.
Ane dozane of pepper quernis price xij s.
(4) 1583 Elgin Rec. I. 172.
Ane peppircornis
(5) 1689 Brechin Testaments VII. 211.
A pepper quorne iij s.

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