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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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Sex-airring, adj. Also: sax-earing, saxhering. [ON sexæringr, f. sex ‘six’, and ár ‘oar’. Also in the mod. Shetland dial.] In Orkney and Shetland: (Of a boat) six-oared. —1566 Rec. Earld. Orkney 377.
Witht ane gret saxhering boith 1602 Shetland Sheriff Ct. (ed.) 40.
Ane new sax earing bott … ane sax earing boitt with hir airis 1622 Orkney & Shetl. Test. I 88b.
Ane auld sex airring bott

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