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

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First published 2002 (DOST Vol. XI).
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Tym(m)er, -ir, -yr, n.2 Also: tymmere, tymire, timmer, timber, (timbr-, tymbr-). [e.m.E. tymbre (1480), timber (1566), OF timbre (1350 in Godefroy), med. L. timbrium, MLG timber, timmer, ? ultim. f. Tym(m)er n.1] A quantity of furs, where specified, usu. forty skins.1368 Exch. R. II 300.
[Vna timbra de letys
1374 Exch. R. II 466.
De x tymbris et vij pelluris de letys
1377 Exch. R. II 547.
De tymer de letys, iiij li. vj s. viij d.
1436 Exch. R. IV 681.
Pro purificacione quater vigenti tymeris foderature
1438 Exch. R. V 34.
Quindecim timeris foderature dictis menyvare
1444 Exch. R. V 149.]
Et pro uno [sic] timbria et undecim bestiis dez letteis
c1420 Bute MS 170a.
Of the tymyr of skurel ii d.
14.. Acts I 303/2.
Of a tymmyr [L. tymbria] of skynnis of toddis quhytredys mertrikis [etc.] … at the outpassing iiij d.
1473 Treas. Acc. I 31.
iiij tymire of grece to purfell that govne, … the tymire contenand iij dosane iiij bestis
1473 Treas. Acc. I 32.
iij tymir of armyng
1505 Treas. Acc. III 41.
To Alexander Burn, furrour, for xxij tymir of ermyngis to the kingis rob riall
1506 Treas. Acc. III 264.
Tymer of ermyngis to it [sc. a gown]
1507 Treas. Acc. IV 29.
For ane tymyr of ermyngis to eik the purfell of the said goun
1512 Treas. Acc. IV 215.
For xvj tymmere letteis to the quenis goune … ; price tymmer xl s.
1536 Treas. Acc. VI 457.
Tymmir
1541 Treas. Acc. VII 459.
For dichting and grathing of the tymmer of sabill contenand vjxx of skynnis
1597 Skene Verb. S. s.v.Timbria.
Ane timmer of skinnes. That is swa mony as is inclused within twa broddes of timmer, quhilk commounlie conteinis fourtie skinnes
1612 Bk. Rates (Halyb.) 305.
Furres called armyns, the timber, contening fourty skins
1662 Nicoll Diary 388.
One timber of sables is 20 skynnes

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