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: 1475, 1584-1609
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Sind(e)ring, vbl. n. [Sinder v. Cf. ME sundring (c1250), etc.] Separation, parting. —c1475 Acts of Schir William Wallace (1570) vii 557.
Our sindering [M. disseueryng] I wald na Suthroun saw a1585 Maitland Quarto MS 103/9.
O sindring, o wofull doleance 1596–7 Milne-Home MSS 63.
Efter our sindering yisternycht 1609 Dunferm. B. Rec. II 71.
The … convocatting of sundry gentlemen … to the redding & sundering of thame
