A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1990 (DOST Vol. VII).
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(Recruting,) Recruiting, -crooting, vbl. n. [e.m.E. recruiting (1670), Recrute v.] a. The action of recruiting soldiers. b. The action of extending in size, or of repairing, (a loom). Cf. e.m.E. recruit v. to repair (a ship) (1691). —a. 1646 Sir R. Murray in Hamilton P. (Camden Soc.) 136.
Concerning the recruiting of the Scots' regiments in France 1651 Scotland and the Commonwealth 22.
Ther was such ane eager desire of recrooting some regiments that wer broken at Innerkeithen —b. 1686 New Mills Manuf. 113.
Twenty shillings for this idle time and paines in recruiting the frames
