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Aller, Allar, Allour, n. [e.m.E. aller (1502), var. of alder, more exactly repr. OE. aler, alor.] An alder tree. 1542 Reg. Cupar A. II. 210.
The said Georde sall laubour … our garding, herbe garding, orcheat treis and alleris thairin 1546 Acts Lords of Council MS. XXI. 54.
The … distructioun of the … aikis, escheis, allaris, byrkis, and vtheris growand 1578 Reg. Great S. 766/2.
Eschis, sauchis, aller, esp, plane, elm and birk c1590 Fowler 181/9.
Att the aeks and allers that perpend My plaints I speire 1607 Criminal Trials II. 522.
Thre hundreth grit growand allouris 1658 Melrose R. Rec. I. 174.
Young wood, treis, alleris, broome and utheris 1661 Ib. 363.
Severall young oakes, sauchs, allars and hissell 1698 Lanark B. Rec. 262.
Resolved that what allars shall be necessar for the bridge be taken out of Clydsholme wood
b. Attrib. with bark, spar, tre. 1564 Edinb. B. Rec. III. 187.
That na fals cullour be brissell, vrsell, aller barkis, ... be vsit in tymes cuming 1586 Protocol Book of J. Merser 4 b.
That evirie of the saidis partye plant sauchis and allar treis endlang the sydis of the said cast and fowsie 1612 Criminal Trials III. 221.
Cutting and away-taking of tuelf grit allour-treyis 1640 Peebles Gleanings 251.
Ane aller trie to be awes to the auld milne 1657 Melrose R. Rec. I. 161.
For allar spars boght 1695 Corshill Baron Ct. 189.
The pryce of five stone of aller barkes 1702 Foulis Acc. Bk. 307.
The door of the allarpark
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