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: 1552-1590, 1650
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S(c)heddar, -er, n. Also: sheder. [S(c)hed v.] One who sheds the blood of another person; one responsible for the deaths of many people. See Blude-scheddar n. for further examples. —c1552 Lynd. Mon. 1952.
Cayam … Wes first schedder of saikles blude 1570 Satirical Poems xviii 73.
Wo to the scheddars of his saikles blude 1558-66 Knox II 280.
That I my selff was … the scheddar of the bloode 1584 Acts III 300/1.
Gif the sleyar, sheddar of bluid or invadar … haue landis 1590 Burel Pilgr. ii 354 (see Blude-scheddar n.).
Sheder c1650 Spalding I 244.
Being suche a blood schedder and cruell oppressour
