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Quotation dates: 1631-1700+
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Skellit, Skillet, n. Also: skeilet, -it. [Late east-midl. ME skelett (a1403), e.m.E. skillet (1519), skellet (1530), of uncertain derivation, but cf. OF escuelete, esculette a small plate (OED).] A skillet, a cooking pan used for boiling, stewing, etc. Also attrib. 1631 Buccleuch Household Bk. 26 Sept.
Thre skillets and four ladels 1641 Dunferm. Hammermen 21.
Assay [demanded by the craft of their coppersmiths] … ane stewen pan and skeilet 1649 Edinburgh Testaments LXIV 262.
Ane litill skellit pryce thairof xii s. 1653 Archaeologia Scotica I 175.
[The coppersmiths' essay] a stewen pan and skeilit 1675 Archaeologia Scotica I 177.
[The coppersmiths' essay] a skellit of brassattrib. 1703 Household Bk. Gr. Baillie 169.
For a skellit pan … £2 8 s.
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