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: 1500-1599
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Stand burd, Standard buird, Standast burd, n. [Cf. Stand(e) bed. ? f. Stand v. or Standand(e ppl. adj. or ? f. Standar(t n. 2 or perhaps not all of one origin.] ? (Free-)standing, set up on trestles, a framework or the like. — ?15… Aberd. B. Rec. MS XVI (Jam.).
A almery a standast burd with tressis 1541–2 Aberd. Trades 269 n.
Item, ane standard buird with trestis buirdclayeth tua formis ane cheir 1580 Reg. Privy C. III 320.
In the hall thre stand burdis sett on brandirs with thair furmes
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