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First published 1951 (DOST Vol. II).
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Quotation dates: 1499-1607
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Gait-buk, -buck, n. [Norw. geitebukk, Du. geitebok; cf. ME. gote bucke, OE. gátbucca.] A he-goat. a1500 Bernardus, etc. ii. 101.
[A gayt buke that mayde the greyfe c1520-c1535 Nisbet Hebr. ix. 12.]
The blude of gait buckis 1531 Bell. Boece I. p. xlvii.
In this ile is gret nowmer of scheip, ilk ane gretar than ony gait buk 1549 Complaynte of Scotland 58/21.
Sum tyme it [a comet] hes aperit lyik tua gait buckis iustand contrar vthirs 1576 Edinburgh Testaments IV. 337.
xlv gait buk skynnes 1607 Ib. XLIII. 319.
Thrie thrie ȝeir auld gait bukis
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