A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 2002 (DOST Vol. XII).
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Quotation dates: 1400-1499, 1589
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Yn(s)che, n. [ME and e.m.E. ynche (Trevisa); var. of Inch n.1] An inch. —14.. Acts I 387/2.
The mesure of the balk that men weyis with … the tong salbe the lynth off a schaftmonthe and j ynche 1589 Glasgow B. Rec. I 137.
The lyand stane [of a mill] at the hem sex ynsche