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First published 2000 (DOST Vol. VIII).
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Quotation dates: 1565-1646
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Schell padocke, n. Also: shel(l)- and -pad(d)ock, -poddok. [S(c)hell n. and Pad(d)ok n.1 Cf. e.m.E. shell padde (1562), after MLG schildpadde, MDu. schildpadde in which the first element is a corruption of earlier schale a shell. Cf. Fris. skelpad, skelpat (Clement in Archiv VI).] A tortoise. —1565 Reg. Privy C. I 413.
Ane penny … havand on the one syde ane palmetre crownit, ane schell padocke crepand up the schank of the samyn 1581-1623 James VI Poems I 172/1133.
The slow-past shelpaddock a1600 T. Maitland in Watson's Coll. ii 54.
Shell-padock 1638 T. Hope Diary 77.
Schell poddokis a1646 Wedderburn Voc. (1709) 10.
Testudo, a shell paddock
