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: 1399-1400, 1475
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Thareoure, Tharour, adv. [ME and e.m.E. ðer ouer (c1220), þer ouer (Cursor M.), þar ower (c1400), therouer (1535).] To or on the other side (of a river, etc.). — a1400 Legends of the Saints xviii 190.
He tuk his vay … to the flume Jordane. & thare-oure quhen at he vane, In-to that … foreste, He [etc.] c1475 Acts of Schir William Wallace vii 1188.
Bathe hors and men in to the wattir fell. The hardy Scottis … Set on the laiff with strakis sad and sar, Off thaim thar our as than souerit thai war
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