A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 2001 (DOST Vol. IX).
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(Side-rape,) Syd(e)-rape, Sydrop, n. [e.m.E. syde rape (Cath. Angl.); Sid(e n. and Rape n.] One of a pair of ropes used to harness a horse to a plough, etc., a trace. —1513 Doug. xii xi 25.
Horssis, renȝeis, sydrapis [Ruddim. syde rapis] and cart dyd sche Rewle and direct amydwart the melle 1516 Fife Sheriff Ct. 26.
The graith of hir pleuch that is to say somys syderapis culter sok [etc.] 1658 Boyd Fam. P. No. 236 (27 Feb.).
Foure yron girthes five yron sydropis [etc.]
