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: 1505, 1629
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Ring-net, Reynge-net, n. [Ring n.1 Cf. 19th c. Eng. (1830).] ? A sort of salmon-net; or ? a method of netting salmon. Also attrib. —1505 Berwick Reg. in Rep. Hist. MSS, Var. Coll. I 12.
That no mane exsept he be a fre burges … shall not fish upone Twede for no salmond with longe net, short net nor reynge netattrib. 1629 Milne-Home MSS 233.
In the ringnet stand and fishing of Paxtoun on the Water of Tweed
