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A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1951 (DOST Vol. II).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.
Quotation dates: 1519, 1642
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Desk, rare variant of Dask n. 1. — 1519 Reg. Episc. Aberd. II. 176.
Ane desk clath of Dornyk, riffin 1642 Fife Synod 129.
At the entrie of sindrie deskis … there are crosiar staffes
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