A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 2001 (DOST Vol. IX).
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Quotation dates: 1399-1400, 1606-1631
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(Sikil,) Sicle, Sickle, n. Also: sekil. [ME sikel (a1225), sikul(le (14th c.), sykyl (Prompt. Parv.), e.m.E. syckle (1523), sickle (1591), OE sicol, sicel.] A sickle. — a1400 Legends of the Saints xv 36.
Thare wes corne mekil Bot few war to set it in sekil 1606 Birnie Kirk-b. iii.
This our carnall carion … shall at last in the Lords haruest, be glaned in, by his angel with the sharpe sicle 1631 Rutherford Lett. (1894) 63.
The angels … prepare their hooks and sickles for that great harvest
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