A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 2002 (DOST Vol. XII).
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West end, -ende, n. Also: weystende, wast-, wost- and -end. [ME and e.m.E. west ende (Ancr. R.), west end (a1400-50), OE west-ende, MLG westende, Du. westeinde.] The western end (of a place, building, etc.).1451 Exch. R. V 468.
Le Westend de Stramigloo 1537 Glasgow Dioc. Reg. I 111.
Jhon Jonsoun is rentellit in sax s. land in Weystende of Gevande 1428 Liber Melros 521.
At the west ende of the toun 1513 Selkirk B. Ct. (ed.) 24.
That … all placis of the est end of the town and wost end be in lykwys rewlit anent the stoping of hedrowmes and casting of souchis 1601 Edinb. B. Rec. V 297.
To caus cast ane … fousie at the wast end of the loche c1650 Spalding I 313.
The sylring at the wastend of the pend, quhairon the gryte stepill standis a1676 Guthry Mem. (1702) 239.
The remnant being countrey-people of Lenox and the west-end of Sterlinshire
