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

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First published 1963 (DOST Vol. III).
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Quotation dates: 1420, 1508, 1566-1690

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(Lade-,) Laid-gal(l)on(e, n. Also: ladd-, lead-, led-, leid- and -galloun(e, -gallen. [f. ME. and e.m.E. lade v. to lade, bale, ladle (a liquid), (also (cf. Lade v.) to load); and Gallon n. : mod. midl. Eng. dial. has lade-gawn, -gaun, -gorn (also lade-bucket, -pail, -skip etc.), and cf. midl. ME. ladebolle (1420), and e.m.E. (midl.) lademeale (1579), lad payle (1558), all in the same or similar senses. Cf. also Lagallo(u)n, Laglein, and Ladillgallone.] A kind of vessel used for ladling and carrying liquids.? Generally, or ? always, one of cooper's work, appar. a kind of wooden pail with a handle.Appar. orig. applied only to a large ladle of this sort used in brewing, but also latterly as used for various other purposes.c1420 Bute MS. 162 b.
[The burgess heir to have] the lede & the masfat, the barel, the ladegalon [L. lagenam; Balfour laid-gallon, Skene gallon] & the caldron
1508 Rentale Dunkeld. 100.
[David Cowper to make 9 stoups] amphore, [1] laddgalloun, [and 1] sponchour, [2s. 8d.]
1566 Protocol Book of Thomas Johnsoun 97.
3 wort standis, 5 cumyngis, 2 laid gallonis, 4 roubouris, 11 gret barrellis
1566 Treasurer's Accounts XI. 517.
Certane lumes as wirt standis, cumyngis, laidgallonis, … concernyng brewing
1589 Glasg. B. Rec. I. 129.
Ane buird stand, laidgalloun and barrow
1606 Dunferm. B. Rec. II. 23.
For ane laidgallon to carie watter thairto [to the lime]
1609 Hilderstoun Silver Mines I. 199 b.
Ledgallones to cary watter to the furnace
1617–8 Master of Works Accounts MS. XIV. 3 b.
For a burne stand and tua laid gallenis to draik the lyme with
1617–8 Ib. 12.
To a couper for girthis & dressing the burnestand, tubbes, & laidgallen
1648 Edinburgh Testaments LXIV. 27.
Ane wasching coig and ane laid galloune
1685 Proceedings of Society of Antiquaries LVIII. 362.
In the milkhouse … , A milk leadgalloun … A burnestand
1685 Ib. 365.
2 laid gallouns, 2 cummings, 2 trowes
1690 Lanark B. Rec. 237.
There is delyvered … to James Gardener, present master of work, the tounes pick … a laidgallon, ane fire shovell [etc.]

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