A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 2001 (DOST Vol. IX).
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Statut(e, ppl. adj. [Statut(e v.] a. Appointed. b. ? Standing or caused to stand, vertical. —a. 14.. Acts I 361/2.
Gif he lay his custum in the statut place vnder the erde or vnder a stane 1533 Boece 290b.
Of this commyxcioun (quhen the statut tyme was byrvn) ane son was producit —b. 1645–6 J. Hope Diary (1958) 157.
They were first lyke unto our ordinarie pouder milnes … consisting of tuo stones turned upon edge with the which they bray the seed … bot besydes that, the statute exeltrie hes a wheelle upon the over end of it which moves a long exeltrie by a timpane … The great exeltrie also had ane uther small wheill … which turned ane uther exeltrie which also turned ane fourth small statute exeltrie
