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

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First published 2001 (DOST Vol. X).
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Tanker(t, n. Also: tancker, tankart, -d, tanquard. [ME and e.m.E. tancard (1310), tankard (1352), tanckerd (1566), tanker (1601), MDu. tanckaert, F. tanquart.] A tankard.1380 Exch. R. III 43.
Tankardis, vasis ligneis
1513 Doug. iii viii 38.
My fader … A mekil tankart [Ruddim. tankert] with wyne fild
1578 Maxwell Mem. 312.
Tanquard
1646 Edinb. Test. LXII 287.
Ane tine saltfatt, ane tanker sevine stubies
1653 Edinb. Test. LXVII 10.
xj quhyt irone tankers
1655 Edinb. Test. LXVIII 125b.
Tancker
1687 Montgomery Mem. II 341.
Ane coper tanker
1693 Edinb. Test. LXXX 32b.
A bigg silver tanker
1693 Foulis Acc. Bk. 158.
For a tanker to Babie
1707 Household Bk. Gr. Baillie 175.
A tin tanker

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