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First published 2001 (DOST Vol. IX).
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Stove, Stoif(f, Stoff, n.2 [ON stofa orig. a stove-room, later a room more generally. Also in the later Shetland dial. as stokkstov a house with a timber framework (Jakobson). Cf. e.m.E. stoue (? 1545), stouffe (1559) a room heated by a furnace, ‘chiefly with reference to Germany, the Low Countries, Scandinavia or Russia’ (OED Stove n.1 2).] ? A room or house (orig. ? heated by a furnace). Also attrib. with hous. See also Brian Smith ‘Stock-stove Houses’ in Shetland Folk Book VII 22-27. —1624 Reg. Privy C. XIV 751.
Andro Edmestoun … deponit that he saw Ninian and Mans Sweanesone have thair severall fyris in the stoif, and that he hard Mans say that he wald not go out of it 1646 Particular Register of Sasines for Shetland RS 44/3, 305b.
[In 1646 the subjects in a sasine included] tua merk tua uris land tuelff pennies the merk under the hous or stove of Sutherhous in Glus 1670 Shetland Archives L. H. Mathewson Papers D14/39/4.
The hall & stoff soe callit —attrib. 1603 Shetland Sheriff Ct. (ed.) 96.
Ane new stoiff hous without ruiffe apertening to umquhill Jhone Sinclair, lyand at Skallowaybankis quhilk wes fewit to the said Jhone be umquhill Robert, erle of Orknay … to the valour of ane hundrethe pundis
