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A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)

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First published 1986 (DOST Vol. VI).
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(Quhale-bane,) -bone, Quhaill-bain, -bone, n. Also: quhail-. [ME huel-bon ivory (14th c.), qwalle-bon (c1400), e.m.E. also = baleen (1604).] = Quhalis bane. —c1500-c1512 Dunb. xxi 46 (B).
Toungis now are maid of quhyte quhaill [M. quhale] bone 1595–6 Invent. Castle Campbell in Sc. Hist. Rev. X (1912–13) 302.
Tua peice of quhaill bain 1614 1st Rep. Hist. MSS 135.
For poldaves and quhail bone

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