A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 2001 (DOST Vol. X).
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Tavern, Tavarn, v. [Med. L. tabernare to buy or sell retail (13th c. in Latham). Cf. e.m.E. taverne (1534) to subdivide a tenement, tavern (1680) to frequent taverns.] tr. a. To sell (goods) retail illicitly. b. To vend (wine) in or as in a tavern. —a. 14.. Acts I 35/2.
Gif ony suilke … hantys to cum on nycht because of mukeryn and tavernys his fysche in house by nycht the quhilk he sulde sell on the day in the mercate he sal geyff … forfalt —b. 14.. Acts I 308/2.
Giff ony alien schip come carkyt wyth wyn … he sal gyf for his set in the havyn twal peniis … And gyf ony ton be tavarnyt [L. Si aliquod doleum vendiderit tabernando] the tome ton salbe the kyngys
