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First published 2000 (DOST Vol. VIII).
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Quotation dates: 1500-1597, 1664
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(Scheth,) Sheth, n.2 Also: scheat, sheet. [Perhaps the same word as Scheth,n.1 Cf. ONorthumb. sceaþa a nail, also 17th c. Eng. skeath (1613, 1616), ? of Scand. origin and 18th c. Eng. sheat (1733). Also in the later dial.] ‘The slanting wooden bar or strut joining the share to the beam to which the mould-board in the old Scots plough was attached’ (SND, s.v. Sheth n.). — c1500-50 Pleugh-Song (1666) in Tools & Tillage I iii 178.
All that belongs to the pleugh … the pleugh-head, sok, sheet and mowdie bread 1597 Edinburgh Testaments XXX 57b.
Ten dossane of pleuch scheatis 1664 Melrose Reg. Rec. II 102.
[For a] pleugheid, sheth and harow taynes
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