Dictionaries of the Scots Language
Dictionars o the Scots Leid

A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)

Hide Quotations Hide Etymology

Abbreviations Cite this entry

About this entry:
First published 1951 (DOST Vol. II).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.

Gamo(u)nd, Gamount, n. Also: gammond, gawmo(u)nd, galmound, -mand. [Var. of Gambat n.] A gambol or caper. c1500-c1512 Dunb. xxvi. ii.
He bad gallandis … , kast vp gamountis [R. galmandis] in the skyis 1529 Lynd. Complaynt 181.
Castand galmoundis, with bendis and beckis 1540 Id. Sat. 452.
Tak thair ane gay gamond [B. gawmond] of France 1558-66 Knox I. 43.
He lapp up … upoun the scaffold, and casting a gawmound, said, ‘Whair are the rest of the playaris?’ 1638 Adamson Muses Thr. 23.
While as we went a shooting, Ay when I hit the mark, I cast a gamound 1681 Colvil Whig's Suppl. ii. 14.
Just like the men, … They cast their gammonds up, and caper