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: <1375, 1375-1400
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Spad(e)berd(e. [e.m.E. spade-beard (1598); Spad(e n. and Berd(e n.] A name for a person with a spade-shaped beard. —1366 Rot. Sc. 902/2.
[Johannes Spadeberde de Scotia 1398–1400 Aberd. B. Rec. (SHS) 98.]
Patoun Spadberd, iiii d.