A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1951 (DOST Vol. II).
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Forro(w) cow = Ferrow cow (a cow not in calf).1542 Reg. Great S. 620/1.
10 vacce pregnantes, … 5 vacce dicte forrow cum earum vitulis 1568 Waus Corr. I. 41.
Fowr forro ky … , fowr tydy ky … , four yeild ky 1586 Grant Chart. 287.
xlviii ky, new calffit and forrow 1597 Misc. Spald. C. I. 191.
Scho hes thy forrow kyis milk … in hir pane
