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First published 2000 (DOST Vol. VIII).
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Schald(e, S(c)hauld, Schold, n. Also: shald. [ME and e.m.E. shelde (14th c.), sholde (1414), shawl (1529), shole (1555), shauld (c1585), showld (1594), shoale (1634); Schald(e adj.] A shallow; a sand-bank or bar. Also fig. —(a) a1400 Leg. S. xvii 113.
The body lay … castine one a schald c1475 Wall. x 44.
He kest a gait befor, Langis the schauld, maid it bath dep and schor 1513 Doug. i iii 55.
This tempest … Felt Neptune, and … The deip furthȝet in schaldis heir and thair Ib. iii x 99.
The dangerus schaldis and cost vppykyt we With al hys blynd rolkis of Lybibe Ib. x vi 33.
For in the schald scho [sc. the ship] stoppys, and dyd stand Apon a dry chyngill or bed of sand Ib. v iv 60, etc. 1533 Boece 411.
In schald of the ryver, delfing ane profound hole, thai kest the kingis body Ib. 601.
The navy apoun the rochis and schaldis drewin 1535 Stewart 967. 1563 Acts II 537/2.
That all cruuis and ȝairis that ar set of lait vpone sand and schauldis far within the watter … be incontinent tane downe 1584 Sempill Sat. P. xlv 161.
His schip come never on the schalde, But stak still on the ancker halde 1587-99 Hume 55/92. ?1623 Melrose P. 512.
The Hollanders … turned to the east hand, to a shald visible to evrie mans eye 1664 Reg. Privy C. 3 Ser. I 575.
To try … if the said dyke where the new cruives now are be a greater shauld then where they were before Ib. 573. 1670 Aberd. Council Lett. V 73.
When vessells shall fall upon any shald within such a distance from the toun of Dortfig. 1562-3 Winȝet I 3/13.
Thy realme … lyke … ane schip … gydit … be sleuthfull marinaris … is euyl crasit on the schaldis(b) 1610 Misc. Hist. Soc. II 227.
He left his schips & fled in les boots throche scholdis & straits amangest these ilandis
