A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1990 (DOST Vol. VII).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.
Quotation dates: 1600-1699
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(Redike,) Readyke, n. (Appar. a popular corruption of 17th c. Eng. redoubt a fieldwork or fortification, F. redoute, etc. (1616), med. L. reductus a refuge, f. redūcere Reduce. Cf. Dyke n.) —16.. Macfarlane's Geog. Coll. III 237.
A deep ditch round about the hill … called by the commons readykes alias redoubts which is a term of fortification
