A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
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Quotation dates: 1500-1599
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Bed-feit, n. pl. [Northern ME. bed fute (1483). e.m.E. bedsfeet (1670).] The foot of a bed. —15.. Clariodus iii. 111.
Adoune scho set hir at hir bed feit 1576 Edinburgh Testaments IV. 113 b.
Ane … kist that standis at my bed feit
