A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1990 (DOST Vol. VII).
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(Roum,) Rowm, v.3 P.p. also rowmeit. [Roum n.] tr. a. To install (in an office). b. ‘To allocate a proportion of the common pasture to a tenant-farmer on an estate, calculated on the basis of the number of winter stock which his holding will carry, esp. in the phr. souming and rouming’ (SND, s.v. Roum v. 1) (see also Rouming vbl. n.2). —a. 1567 Reg. Privy C. I 533.
We … dimit and renunce the governament … in favouris of oure said sone … that he may be inaugurat, placeit, and rowmit thairin, and the croun royall deliverit to him —b. 1647 Peebles Gleanings 294.
The haill counsell ordanes Kaidmure and the tounes guidis thairupone to be sowmeit and rowmeit
