A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 2000 (DOST Vol. VIII).
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Quotation dates: 1600-1699
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(Scate-bread,) Skatebread, n. [? f. or f. as Scat(e,n.] Some sort of small fish. —1684 Sibbald Scot. Illustr. iii 37.
Catalogum piscium … qui in regionibus Scotiæ austro et occidenti reperiuntur, … pillock, skatebread [etc.] 16.. Macfarlane's Geog. Coll. III 191.
Skatebread, which is a little small fish an inch and a half long, shining clear as silver
