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

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First published 1990 (DOST Vol. VII).
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Rent, n.2 [e.m.E. rent (1535); Rent v.2] A tear or laceration. In rentis, in shreds, in pieces. —1581 Hamilton Cath. Tr. 21b.
Ane vyndie sophist … ryuis [theology] in rentis [pr. intentis] Ib. 64b.
Hou can it be that Christis bodie … is reuin in rentis be the teith of … preistis 1587 Carmichael Etym. 12.
Lacer, rent 1683 New Mills Manuf. 46.
That the rents and too near shearing of some cloth lately sent in be prevented in time coming

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