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A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)

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First published 2001 (DOST Vol. X).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.

Quotation dates: 1436-1446, 1503-1539, 1621-1668

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Tag(g)ing, vbl. n. Also: taiging, tagine, tagone. [e.m.E. tagging (1572).]

1. The action of fitting a strap, esp. to harness, in sense 3 of Tag n.1503 Treasurer's Accounts II 202.
For ane curpal and ane tee to the harnes sadill, tagging, mending and stopping of the samyn
1503 Treasurer's Accounts II 219.
For … tagging, ringyng, bukkylling, and mending of brokin sadilles
1504 Treasurer's Accounts II 438.
For ane new pannall to the quenis bottail sadill, tagging, bukkilling, and ringing of the samyn
1508 Treasurer's Accounts IV 129.
For tagging, grathing and bukkilling of the wild bestis, xx s.
1537 Treasurer's Accounts VI 335.
Taging
1539 Treasurer's Accounts VII 191.
For mending of the wardrop geir and taging of the kingis litycamp beddis
1621 Maxwell Mem. I 326.
For ane postpilȝen mending, chalmiring and tagging [pr. lagging] of the saidill

2. The material used as tags in senses 2 and 3 of Tag n.1635 Edinburgh Testaments LVII 224b.
Certane taging for buittis
1656 Edinburgh Testaments LXVIII 298.
Taiging
1657–8 Dumbarton Common Gd. Acc. 227.
Thrie ells and a halff of tagging to be strings thairto [sc. a bag for the green cloth of the council seat]
1668 Orkney Antiq. Soc. V 39.
Four ell halfell of tagging, four ells of yellow and whyte countfitt pearlin
1668 Boyd Fam. P. No. 289 (14 ? May).
4 ell tagine … 8 once ballme 4 ell tagone

3. attrib. With irnys, a tool for ? cutting or attaching tags (Tag n. 2, 3).1436 Exchequer Rolls IV 681.
Certis ferris scissorum dictis taging irynnis
1446 Exchequer Rolls V 228.
Pro v tagging irnys ad usus regis

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