A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1983 (DOST Vol. V).
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(Plumb-,) Plumbe-lede, n. Also: plump-, plum- and -leid, -lead, -led. [Plum(b n. and Lede n.] Unworked or untreated lead. b. The colour of this; lead-colour. c. attrib. in sense b. —1599 M. Works Acc. (ed.) I. 318.
The plumbers compt … xl stane wecht … of pl[u]mp lead coft to be castin in kakis for the gutteris —a1586 Lindsay MS. 46 b.
The floriginall colour in armes is plumbeleid —1494 Loutfut MS. 143 a.
The berar of the plumled colour in cotarmour
