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Quotation dates: 1500-1699
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Tarpa(n)tyne, Terpentyne, Turpatyne, n. Also: tarpentyne, -in, -ene, tarpet(t)yne, tarpeting, tarburtyne, terpatyne, tearpuntyne, turpentine. [ME and e.m.E. terbentyn (1322), turbentyne, turpentyne (both c1400), terebentyne (c1425), OF tourbentine, terebentyne, L. terebentina (rēsīna) the resin of the terebinth tree.]
1. Turpentine, the viscid solution of resin in volatile oil obtained from conifers. Also attrib. with rod, a rod from a tree containing turpentine resin.(a) 1537–8 Master of Works Accounts (ed.) I 233.
To Peris for … salpeter bruntstane ule petroll tarpantyne aquawite quik silver [etc.] 1579 Edinburgh Testaments VII 285b.
For prenting ink and tarpetyne 1585 Edinburgh Testaments XIV 254b.
Tarpentyne 1589 Edinburgh Testaments XXI 19b.
Ane barrell with certane tarpatyne sald for x s. 1590 Edinburgh Testaments XXI 312.
Four pund tarburtyne at v s. vj d. the pund 1617 Master of Works Accounts (ed.) II 89.
Tarpettyne(b) 1566–7 Treasurer's Accounts XII 404.
For four unce of terpentyne with ane pig 15… Sc. Hist. Rev. IX 450.
Tak the wax with the terpatyne and the crethe or olye and put thame in a puder diche 1661 Dumfries Doc. (Sel. Doc. No. 11).
Tearpuntyne(c) 1540 Treasurer's Accounts VII 357.
Turpatyneattrib. 1632 Lithgow Trav. (1906) 230.
A turpentine rod brought from Jordan and given to King James
b. Tarpentene of Veneis, turpentine of Venice, appar. obtained from the larch tree. 1575 Edinburgh Testaments III 319.
Ipothecar … In his buist … a gray pig with tarpentene of Veneis
c. Oyll of tarpentin, ulie tarpantyne, tarpeting oyle, oil or spirit of turpentine, a distillation of crude turpentine. 1586 Edinburgh Testaments XVI 366.
Thrie pund wecht of spett vlie petir and ulie tarpantyne at xxiiij s. the pund 16.. Adv. MS 22. 2. 11 4th last page.
Oyll of lewender and oyll of tarpentin — 1633 Master of Works Accounts (ed.) II 316.
For tarpeting oyle to the dyell
2. Turpentine tree, the terebinth tree. 1632 Lithgow Trav. vi 258.
I … cut down a faire hunting rod of the heavy and sad turpentine tree, being three yards long … full of small knots, and of a yellowish colour
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