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, 1538-1573
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Stok, Stock, Sthoc, n.3 [Stok n.1, see esp. usage in place-names Stok Wel, Stokefurd and Stok Loche.] (The name of) a fishing station on the Tay. The usage in quot. 1578 is not clear. —"The fishing stations in the estuary of the Tay shift with the shifting of the sands, and their names change accordingly. But further up the river the same names have continued for centuries. … The rent of the 'Stoc' fishing for the season of 1873 was £550 sterling." Alexander Laing Lindores Abbey and its Burgh of Newburgh (1876) 71 n. ?1178 Regesta II 252.
Et unum rete super aquam meam de Pert que vocatur Sthoc 1322 Facs. Nat. MSS II 18.
Stock 1538 Treasurer's Accounts VII 70.
In completam solutionem compositionis carte conjuncte infeodationis Jacobi Campbell [etc.] … de piscariis de Stok et Garth, eiisdem facte per abbatem et conventum de Balmerynocht, jacentibus infra vicecomitatum de Perth —1573 Reg. Privy S. VI 407/2.
His fischeing upoun the wattir of Tay callit the stok of the said place
