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First published 1983 (DOST Vol. V).
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Quotation dates: 1494-1505
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Pegy-, Pegé-, Pygy-mast, n. [Of obscure origin: perh. f. MDu., MLG. pegge, LG. pigge, peg, wooden pin (whence also late ME. peg(g)e, e.m.E. peg peg or pin), with Sc. dimin. suffix in -y; cf. also Du. peg, Da. pig, Sw. pigg pike, point, spike.] ? A small mast of some kind; ? a top-mast or ? a small mast or yard for a pennant on a ship. — 1494 Treasurer's Accounts I. 253.
For ane gret mast, ane ra, ane swken, a pygy mast 1496 Ib. 300.
Giffin to Dauid Gourlay, schippare of the bark callit the Mary, for a mast he put in the samyn schip in Danskin [£5, 15, 6 d.] … Item to Dauid Gourlay for making of a bonat and the lek to it, with smal takil and a tee and viij airis and ij barel of tar and a barel of pyk and a pegy mast to the said schip [£3, 14 s.] 1505 Ib. III. 86.
To Robert Bertoun … for ane mozan mast and ane pege mast [£6, 10 s.]
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