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First published 1951 (DOST Vol. II).
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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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