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First published 1951 (DOST Vol. II).
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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 Compl. 58/21.
Sum tyme it [a comet] hes aperit lyik tua gait buckis iustand contrar vthirs 1576 Edinb. Test. IV. 337.
xlv gait buk skynnes 1607 Ib. XLIII. 319.
Thrie thrie ȝeir auld gait bukis