A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 2001 (DOST Vol. X).
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Quotation dates: 1617, 1700
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Terrier(e, Terrie, n. [Late ME and e.m.E. terrere, terryare (both Prompt. Parv.), terryer (1530), terrier (1602), F. (chien) terrier.] A terrier. — 1617 Misc. Maitl. C. III 344.
Two couple of excellent terrieres or earth dogges which are both stoute good fox killers 1700 Dumfr. & Galloway Soc. 3 Ser. XXXVI 49.
The country is greatly abused … by foxes … & that the nighbouring shires have fallen upon an exact method for destroying the same … by employing of fit … persones … [who] keeped such number of hounds and terries as were requisite for that purpose
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