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: 1670-1700+
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Spea(c)king-pynt, -pint, n. [? Spekin(g vbl. n. and Pint n.] = Speakyng-drynk n. —1670 Carr Lodge Mother Kilwinning 251.
[At Aberdeen, in 1670, the regulations required that non-operative apprentices, in addition to their entry-money, were to provide a dinner with a] speaking pint 1670 Laws of Aberd. Lodge in A. L. Miller Hist. Lodge Aberd. (1919) 62.
He is to pay two dollars ane speaking pynt with his controbution to our box 1670 Laws of Aberd. Lodge in Murray Lyon Hist. Lodge Edinb. 425.
Wee ordaine … that our eldest sones … and all our after comers shall have the benefit of the measson word, free of all dewes. Only ane speaking pynt, ane dinner, and a pynt of wyne, with ther controbutions to the box, and ane merk piece for ther merk 1670 Laws of Aberd. Lodge in Murray Lyon Hist. Lodge Edinb. 425.
No entering prenteise shall be reciaved in this our honourable lodge, but shall pay four rex dollars of composition [etc.] … ane speacking pynt and his controbution to the box as wee have payed before him 1793 Aberd. Trades 314.
The trade [sc. fleshers] having taken under their consideration that it has been the practice for some time past for entrants to this trade to give what is called speaking pints to the masters and others of the trade [etc.] … do … hereby statute … that … all speaking pints and entertainments such as have formerly been given by entrants to the members of the trade shall be abolished
