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A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)

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First published 2001 (DOST Vol. X).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.

Quotation dates: 1499-1500, 1610

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(Tild,) Tyld, Teill, n.2 [ME and e.m.E. telde (Layamon), tilde (14th c.), OE teld.] a. A tent, pavilion. b. A fish trap of some sort. [Cf. ME tielde (1391) a cage for carrying hawks and tild(en (c1175), till(en (Ancr. R.) to set a trap (Tild v.).] —a. a1500 Golagros and Gawane 357.
Meikly with mouth mel to that myld … Thus with trety ye cast yon trew vndre tyld, And faynd his frendschip to fang
b. 1610 Reg. Privy C. VIII 730.
[Patrik Hepburne … in time coming will not slay any fish in the water of Tyne by] arkis, pockis teillis, or trammill [pr. hammill] nettis and hairrywateris

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