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First published 2000 (DOST Vol. VIII).
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(Sclatit,) Sclatet, Sklaitit, ppl. adj. Also: sclait-, sklait(t)ed. [17th c. Eng. slated (1611); Sclate v.] Covered with slates; furnished with a slate roof. —c1592 Buchan Cl. I 144.
Ane sufficient stone sclatet hous 1649 Cramond Ch. Rathven 20.
A stonne hous sklaitted without rigging stones 1664 Glasgow B. Rec. III 31.
That about threttie foot of the sklaitit toofall … be tirred, new sarked and of new againe sklaitit 1668 Edinb. B. Rec. X 51.
That ludgeing in the citiedaill sklaitted … that uther sklaitted ludgeing 16.. Ouchterlony in Macfarlane's Geog. Coll. II 25.
Sklaited 1720 Glasgow B. Rec. IV 95.
The said house is now rebuilt with a sclaited roofe
