A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 2001 (DOST Vol. IX).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.
Quotation dates: 1587-1648
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Stern, v. [L. sternere.] To spread, strew. b. To spread (beds). This, however, may simply be an instance of the Latin. —1587-99 Hume 22/168.
All things beneth the voult of heuin are sterned vnder feit —b. ?a1648 Polemo-Middinia 81.
Doctam milkare cowæas Et doctam sweeppare fleuras & sternere beddas
