A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
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Coll, v.3 [Of obscure origin; in later dial. as cole.] tr. To cut obliquely, to trim. —1664 Maxwell Mem. I. 342.
To sherp the coalliers' picks from tyme to tyme, … and coll thair waiges [= wedges] 1710 Lanark B. Rec. 283.
The petitioners alluayes colling and squinting the north fore corner of the said seatt so to be builded
