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: 1375, 1606
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Toutting, Tutilling, Tutlyng, vbl. n. [Tout v.1] The sound of a horn. —1375 Barb. xix 608.
A tutilling [C. tutlyng] off his horne hard thai 1606 Birnie Kirk-b. vii.
Our heroik burials we oft led lyke a martiall triumphe, wherein the toutting of trumpets [etc.] … and trouping of men … may sufficiently testifie the dedolence of men