A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 2001 (DOST Vol. X).
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Toun end, n. Also: toune-, town(e)-, tound-, tounis-, townis-. [ME and e.m.E. townsend (1421), town-end (1440).] The end or edge of a town, one of the points at the edge of a town.(a) 14.. Acts I 32/2.
Mysal men … sal sit at the toune end and thar ask almous at furth passand men and ingangand 1497 Treas. Acc. I 378.
Giffin to the seke folk in the grantgore [at the] toune end of Glasgo ij s. 1516 Selkirk B. Ct. (ed.) 38.
We ordaine viii men to wak at ilk towne end … quhill daye 1525–6 Selkirk B. Ct. (ed.) 79.
This inqueist ordines thre men at evere town end to vaik quhill cokcrawe thris 1591 Reg. Privy C. IV 625.
Robert Weddirburne deliverit him [sc. the horse] in the handis of Robert Jaksoun, quha lapt on and raid away with him oute at the toun end of Sanctandrois 1632 Prognostication.
Sainct Combes Faire, at the towne end of Whyt Cairnes c1653 Irvine Mun. II 253.
Depurst … to on wabster wyfe … that daualit at the tound ends 1678 Wodrow Hist. II (1829) 485.
John Haldane weaver at the town-end of Dumfries(b) a1500 Peblis to Play 81.
Than thai come to the townis end Withouttin more delay a1500 Henr. Test. Cress. 382.
Let me gang To ȝone hospitall at the tounis end
