A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 2001 (DOST Vol. IX).
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Slot(t, Sloit(t, v. [17th c. Eng. slot (1671); Slot(t n.1] tr. a. To provide with a bolt-fastening. b. To bolt (a door). —a. 1532 Ex. Processes (Reg. H.) No. 5.
v windokis of irne … with leiffis bandit and slotit —b. 1562-3 Winȝet I 139/27.
Ȝour scoleris … hes in thare imaginatioun cloisit vp, slotit, and neidnalit the samin ȝettis of our hæretage 1582 Edinb. B. Rec. IV 253.
The dur wes nocht lokkit bot onelie putt to and slottit 1612 Reg. Privy C. IX 735.
When my lord past to bed, the deponner sloitted the chalmer durris, and when the deponner raise in the morning he fand the durris oppin
