A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
Hide Quotations Hide Etymology
About this entry:
First published 2002 (DOST Vol. XII).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.
Quotation dates: 1668-1697
[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1]
Winter, Vinter, n.2 ‘An iron or rack made to hang on the bars of a fire-grate to support a kettle or pot; a trivet.’ (SND, Winter n.2) Cf. 17th c. Eng winter (1683), ‘in a hand-printing press, a block of wood about nine inches broad by nine deep, supporting the carriage. Perhaps … as a jocular antithesis to the summer or upper rail' (OED). SND suggests a similar relationship with later Sc. Simmer n.2, Som(m)er n. 2. a main beam, the central beam in the drying-floor of a kiln.) —1668 Edinburgh Testaments LXXIII 175.
Ane iron winter for warmeng of aill 1697 Edinburgh Testaments LXXX 223b.
Ane iron vinter and ane irone gooshead worth xij s.
