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First published 1983 (DOST Vol. V).
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Quotation dates: 1562-1684
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Plane tre, n. Also: plain(e, playne and tree, trie. [e.m.E. and ME. (15th c.) plan(e-, playntre(e, f. Plane n.1] A plane-tree.a. The true plane, Platanus. b. The ‘false plane’ or sycamore (as in later Sc. and north. Eng. use: cf. Plane n.1).(1) 1566-70 Buch. Comm. on Virgil Georgics ii. 70.
Platani, the plane treis a1606 Dioscoridis Annot. 45.
[Platanus] Anglice, the plain tree, Scotiæ concessa 1684 Sibbald Scot. Illustr. ii. 7.
Acer majus, multis falso platanus, … the great mapple; commonly yet falsly the sycomore and plaintree(2) 1625 Master of Works Accounts (ed.) II. 174.
For tua cruikis to the yet heid of the plaine tries 1667 Inverness Rec. II. 232.
[To] plant the said yeard with ashe and playne tries 1671 Rothesay B. Rec. 207.
The fyve plain tries growing neir Robert Mwirs yaird
c. The wood of this ( ? sycamore) tree. 1562 Will A. Betoun 224.
In the hall chalmer ane bed and cannoby of planetree 1566 Protocol Book of Thomas Johnsoun 101.
Ane turnit bed with ane draw bed under of plane tre
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