A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1986 (DOST Vol. VI).
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Quotation dates: 1612-1685
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Pot(t)as(s)hes, n. pl. [e.m.E. pot-ashes (1648), Du. pot-asschen (1599 in Kilian; mod. Du. potasch), also F. potasse (1577 pottas, at Lièe, Godef.).] Potash. —1612 Bk. Rates (Halyb.) 288.
Ashes called pott ashes 1647 J. Hope Diary (1919) 141.
Soda … differs from pott ashes or cineres clavellati, that it is made of a certaine herbe, these of any wood 1667 Edinb. B. Rec. X 26.
For eatch vautt of potashes weighting ane thousand fyve hundreth pund weight 1685 New Mills Manuf. 97.
Pottasshes
