A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1990 (DOST Vol. VII).
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Quotation dates: 1478-1500, 1552-1684
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Rind, n.2 Also: rynd(e; rend; reine. [North. ME rynd (1343), e.m.E. rind (1639), MDu. rijn masc., fem. rine, MLG rîn, ryn.] The iron fitting supporting the upper mill-stone of a mill. = Miln-rynd(e n. Also attrib.(a) 1478 Binns P. (S.R.S.) 6.
The away taking of a myln rynde, a myln spindil, and a myln stane … out of the said myln 1499–1500 Acts Lords of Council II 376.
[Breaking the] myln and myln stane … and taking away of the rynd of the sammyn 1552 Dundee B. Ct. II fol. 187b (26 Sept.).
Sen the pwynding of the rynd of the common myln 1557–8 Edinb. Old Acc. I 260.
For making of the twa spynnills and twa rynds, xx s. 1598 Reg. Privy C. V 495.
[They] tuke away with thame the spyndill, rynd and trymmill brodis of the said miln 1623 Protocol Book of J. Scott loose leaf.
They estimat … the trindell with the rynd and spindell [of the mill] to fywe pundis money 1684 Lesmahagow Ann. 120.
[The miller felled him with his] rynd(b) 1559–60 Edinb. Old Acc. I 306.
vij mell rendis and sevin spindillis(c) 1650 Dunlop P. II 94.
While shoe was cursing and the mill grinding the millstone did leap off the reineattrib. 1616–19 Master of Works Accounts (ed.) II 73.
For sex lather quhengis to the rind spindell
