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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
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Quotation dates: 1457, 1547-1575
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Butter tron(e, n. Also: buttar, -ir. [Butter n.] The tron in Edinburgh for the weighing of butter.1457 Edinb. B. Rec. I. 18.
Lie butter trone assedatur Margarete Bertrem 1547 Treasurer's Accounts IX. 133.
For carying of irne fra the buttar trone to the sellar 1557 Criminal Trials I. 396.
At the said Robertis chalmer stair-fute, besyde the Buttir trone 1569-73 Bann. Memor. 114.
Twysday … they begouth to make the barrace aboue the Buttertrone, for the defence of the castell 1572-5 Diurnal of Occurrents 297.
The suddartis stand betuix the west port and the ovirbow; the inhabitaris of the toun in ane haill knot at the butter troine in feir of weir
