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Quotation dates: 1457-1672
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Pewder, n. Also: peud(d)-, pewdd-, peuld-, pewld-; poud-, powd-, pould-, powld-; pud(d)-, pwd-, puld-; puid-, pwid-; pod-, poyd- and -ar, -ir, -yr, -(o)ur; peweder; pelder; pedyr. Also irregular Sc. variants: pleuder, pleudir, plodir. [ME. peudur (1388–9), late ME. and e.m.E. peudr (north., 1418–19), peauder (c 1425), pewdyr (Cath. Angl.), pewder (north., 1552), var. of Pewter n. Cf. Pewther n. Also in the later Sc. and north. Eng. (WYks.) dials.]The usual Sc. form from c 1450.
1. Pewter, the grey alloy of tin and lead.1564 Dumfries B. Ct. in Protocol Book of Mark Carruthers 12.
Ane pewder quart … contening v lbs. and three qres. of pund of pewder 1565 Linlithgow Sheriff Ct. 15 June.
xij plaittis weyand xxiiij pound pewdir price of the pund [3/4] 1565 Protocol Book of Thomas Johnsoun 97.
12 trencheouris all of Inglis pewder 1567 Acts III. 43/1.
The fyne tyn pewdar to be markit with the croun and the halmer 1581 Kirkcudbr. B. Rec. I. 142.
Fyne pewdir and … stowp pewdir 1591 Edinburgh Testaments XXIII. 209.
Ane braid gairding of peuder c 1614 1st Rep. Hist. MSS. 138.
Ane basen and hewer of peuder of the best fassione 1621 Acc. Bk. Jas. Bell in Glasg. Her. (1864) 25 June.
Ressewed of yours 39¼ lb. pewder hewand the rose 1627 Brechin Testaments IV. 164.
Ten trunchouris of Scotis pewdder 1627 Ib. 277.
Peudar(b) 1529 Reg. Great S. 177/2.
Puder(c) 1550 Treasurer's Accounts IX. 418.
For thre stane powder boucht in maid veschell amanges the powderarris(d) 1550–1 Dundee B. Ct. II. fol. 28 (12 Jan.).
Ane stane & ane half of vegcht of pelder(e) 1568 Edinburgh Testaments I. 227.
Twa greit chargar plaittis of pwider(f) 1573 Reg. Privy C. II. 269.
Twa lawers of Flanders poyder
b. Pewter utensils, collectively.In the quot. for 1583, perh. an example of Pouder n.1583 Cal. Sc. P. VI. 334.
[One barrel of some] pasmentes [of silk some of worsted, and some] puder [amounting to xv l.] 1614 Rec. Convention of Royal Burghs II. 457.
Sellers of peuder
2. a. attrib.For further examples, see Lavar n., Misso(u)r n. 1, etc.Pewder veschell, pewter vessels, collectively; pewter ware.(1) 1457 Peebles B. Rec. I. 119.
A peudar chader 1498–9 Dunferm. B. Rec. I. 92.
Ane pevder dische 1515–6 Selkirk B. Ct. (ed.) 36.
Ane pewdur chargeour 1520 Wigtown B. Ct. 106 a.
That na ayll be sald derar na iiii d. the gret quart and iii d. the pewdyr quart 1522–3 Stirling B. Rec. I. 18.
Ane pouder dicht 1568 Edinburgh Testaments I. 227.
Twa puider disches 1588–9 Glasgow B. Rec. I. 129.
Peulder 1623 Pont Cunningham App. 205.
Pewldir 1649 Edinburgh Testaments LXIV. 262.
Twa peudder candelstikes ? 1666 Kirkcudbr. Sheriff Ct. Processes No. 8.
Six pewdar flaggans 1672 Haigs of Bemersyde 475.
Puder(b)1612 Dunblane Test. III. 189.
ix pleuder plaittis and pleuder truncheris 1622 Breadalbane Doc. No. 428.
Ane bred ploder trounschour(2) 1496 Acts Lords of Council II. 27.
A pewder plaite 1520–1 Stirling B. Rec. I. 8.
Poder 1527 Wigtown B. Ct. 198 a.
A pedyr placht 1533–4 Selkirk B. Ct. (ed.) 136.
Powder … podir 1536–7 Ayr B. Acc. 26. 1556 Stirling Ant. IV. 219.
Powlder 1565–6 Protocol Book of Thomas Johnsoun (S.R.S.) 97.
Inglis pudder platis 1567 Edinburgh Testaments I. 4.
Pwder 1573 Reg. Privy C. II. 269.
Flander pulder plaittis 1635 Monteith Stewartry Ct. 29 Oct.
Pewdour 1658 Lanark B. Rec. 166.
Poulder 1667 Strathblane Par. 318.
Powder(3) 1474 Acts Lords Auditors 31/1.
A grete dosane of pewder weschel 1482–3 Ib. in Acts Lords of Council II. cxxiv.
xij pece pewder weschele 1488 Protocol Book of James Young (S.R.S.) I. 32.
Certaine peweder veschall as pot pane disch dublare [etc.] 1495 Halyb. 87.
Powdir 1504–5 Stewart Mem. 86.
Pewderweschell 1552 Treasurer's Accounts X. 101.
Pulder weschell 1587 Edinb. Test. Index I. 157.
Keeper of our sovereign lord's powder veschell 1588 Protocol Book of J. Inglis 26 Aug.
Peuder vessall 1621 Edinburgh Testaments LI. 35.
Braisen pewder weschell(b)1577 Kirkcudbr. B. Rec. I. 42.
It salbe lesum to ony persoun haifand pleudir veschell nocht of sufficient mesour to brek thame
b. comb. with -working and -craft.1580–1 Glasgow B. Rec. I. 83.
The craftisman to have for ilk pund wecht of pewder working vi d. 1628 Edinburgh Testaments LIV. 223 b.
The haill warklwmes of pewder craft
