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: 1590-1661
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(Quhale-schot,) Quhail-schoit, n. Also: quhall-, whale- and -s(c)hot. [Only Sc., f. Quhale n. and schot.] Spermaceti (appar. from the notion that it was spawn ejected by the whale). —1590 Exchequer Rolls XXII 91.
3 s. of quhailschoit 1597 Bk. Rates in Halyb. cxiv.
Quhailschoit the barell 1627 Edinburgh Testaments LIV 202b.
Aucht pund wecht of quhall schot … ix lib. 1661 Acts VII 254/1.
Whaleshot
