A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 2002 (DOST Vol. XI).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.
Quotation dates: 1635-1650
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(Tribill,) Triple, Treeple, adv. [17th c. Eng. triple (1692); Tripill adj.] Three times an amount or extent; thrice. —1635 Dundonald Par. Rec. 396.
If they war fund efter this in ony secret place togidder they suld be punisched triple 1641 Cochran-Patrick Coinage I xxxi.
Coining of the stirling coper monie … could not have been done the ordinare way for triple more charges 1643 Baillie II 71.
I have gone through Buxtorfe's Epitome, and dytes notes on the texts … triple more already than ever was taught in Scotland 1650 Elgin Rec. II 271.
Everie merchand housholder … quha sall prophane the Lords day … sall … for the third falt [stand] in sakcloth and [pay] treeple the penaltie
