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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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Taske maister, n. [e.m.E. taskemaster (Tindale).] A task master, an (unjust) overseer. —?c1675 J. Gordon Hist. III 145.
When the king and his attendants came last yeare to ther border, … theye saw the peoples afflictione, by ther taske maisters; and wold the king now peruse ther papers they doubte not but they wold be justifyd and that the light of his justice to them is ecclipsed by evill ministers

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