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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: 1550-1693

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Sellar, v. Also: sellare, seller, seallar. P.p. also sellareit. [e.m.E. cellar (17th c.), seller (1677); Sellar n.2] tr. To put in store, chiefly or only in sense 1 b of Sellar n.2 Also ellipt.pres. 1550–1 Dundee B. Ct. II fol. 40 (26 Feb.).
Robert Treich … quhom to the baillies hes gevine liciens to loyse his wyne & sellar the samyn and sell it to fremen of this bourgche 1558–9 Edinb. B. Rec. III 29.
Licence to Charllis Sanguilleir … to lois his guddis furth of his schippis … and to seller the samyn in the said toun of Leyth 1578 Reg. Privy S. VII 254/1.
To arreist the saidis forbodin guidis togiddir with the schip … lose and sellare the saidis forbodin guidis 1693 Glasgow B. Rec. IV 64.
All burgesses and merchand traderis within the river of Clyd shall sellar their goods imported or to be exportedp.p. 1551–2 Dundee B. Ct. II fol. 135b (24 Feb.).
The wyne arrestit & sellarit to [remane] vnto the tyme it be decydit quha hes maist just rigcht to ressave the samyn 1574 Reg. Privy C. II 362.
The said leid ure being led and sellarit in sellaris pertening to Johne Dalmahoy … in Leith, and speciallie the haill werklumes being in the said Johne Dalmahoyis sellar 1574 Reg. Privy C. II 408.
The Counsale of Dunde … hes causit arreist thair gudis … not permitting the same to be schippit nor sellarit without thay pay the said taxt 1591 Reg. Privy C. IV 665.
[James Forrester (etc.) … to have disburdened the said ship of her whole goods and] sellarit the same upoun inventure 1598 Reg. Privy C. V 508.
[Goods] sellareit or placeit to be schippit 1628 Reg. Privy C. 2 Ser. II 266.
The wynes are sellared and inventar made thairof 1648 Glasgow B. Rec. II 143.
Victuall … quhilk sould be brocht to this mercat and sellerit and sold in this towne 1658 Glasgow Trades House 353.
The salt to be sellared downe the water 1680 Stirling B. Rec. II 31.
Cornes, beanes, malt, and maill … aither sellared in the toune or sold at the shoreellipt. 1664 Household Bks. Archb. Sharp MS 18.
For lifting the goodis some to seallar and wtheris to a cart 12 s.

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