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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: 1399-1400, 1475

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Geyler, n. Also: geiler, geyelour, -alour, geyeler, gyelere, gyalare. [ME. gailer (c 1320), gaylere, e.m.E. geayler (1485).] A jailer. —a1400 Leg. S. xxvi. 396.
This quhen the gyelere herd say, he come to tham
a1400 Ib. xxxvi. 1116.
Antipater … Cryit one the gyalare, & hicht til hym gold & fe
a1400 Ib. xxxviii. 160.
With geileris [L. custodibus] thane cane he trete With faire giftis
a1400 Ib. xlii. 233.
The geyleris [L. custodes] tuk the flicht
a1400 Ib. l. 652.
Thu may … Thir geyalouris now spek sa till
a1400 Ib. 656.
Till the geyelouris he paste
c1475 Acts of Schir William Wallace ii. 234.
Celimus was maist his geyeler now
c1475 Ib. 246.
Thai chargyt the geyler nocht on him to duell

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