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: 1568-1642
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(Planing,) Playning, Pleaning, vbl. n. [e.m.E. and late ME. planynge (Prompt. Parv.), -ing, playninge, f. Plane v.1] The action of levelling or smoothing. Also pleaning burde (= e.m.E. (1545) playninge tabel). —1568 Edinb. D. Guild Acc. 6.
For playning & couering the buriall ȝaird 1600-1610 Melvill 85.
The small speales lyand alangs a pleaning burde 1642 Fam. Innes 169.
For squaring and playning my gestis
