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Pleuch-graith, -grayth(t, n. Also: pleucht-, plewch(e-, pleugh-, plough- and -gratht. [Pleuch n. 1 and Graith n.] The harness and accoutrements of a plough.In the quot. for 1547 appar. in extended sense, including also plough-beasts.See also pleuch-gere s.v. Pleuch n. 6 (1). 1513 Doug. vii. x. 78.
All instrumentis of pleuch graith irnyt or stelit As cultyris sokkis and the somys gret 1522 Acta Conc. MS. XXXIII. 156.
The wranguis … cutting of thair pleuch graith 1547 Blackfriars Perth 240.
Ilk ane of thame half plewing with half pleugh graith as hors oxin and all uthir thingis necessar thairto 1554 Prot. Bk. Sir A. Gaw 33.
Pleucht gratht 1559 Inchcolm Chart. 97.
Pleuch graytht and all uther plenissing 1569 Reg. Privy C. II. 62.
[They] spuilyeit reft and tuke away his plewch grayth 1585 Prot. Bk. W. Cumming 75.
Ane ox with plewche and plewche grayth 1588 Edinb. Test. XIX. 110, etc. 14.. Acts (1597) ii. 98 b heading.
Destroyers of pleuch-graith 1654 Conv. Burghs III. 388.
Customes at thair portis … for ilk hors load of plough-graith 1678 Mackenzie Law & C. i. xix. 7. (1699) 100.
Stealers of pleugh-graith … to be punished therefore to the death as thieves 1698 Fountainhall Decis. II. 27.