A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 2001 (DOST Vol. X).
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Quotation dates: 1475-1500
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Stuff, v.2 [e.m.E. stuff(e (Trevisa) to stifle, suffocate, OF estofer.] intr. To become breathless or exhausted. —a1500 Golagros and Gawane 830.
Lat the riche man rage … To swyng with suerd quhil he suage; Syne dele ye your dynt. Quhen he is stuffit, thair strike, and hald him on steir c1475 Acts of Schir William Wallace v 285.
At the Blakfurd thar Wallace doune can lycht His hors stuffyt for the way was depe and lang
