A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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Quotation dates: <1375, 1375, 1476-1670
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Scrog(g, Skrog(g, n. [ME and obs. e.m.E. (chiefly north.) skrog(g (a1400), scroge (Cath. Angl.), of unknown origin.]First in place-names.c1208 Reg. Episc. Glasg. I 74.
Ego Robertus de Line concessi & hac carta mea confirmaui Simoni filii Roberti de Scrogges terram de Scrogges a1300 Liber Calchou 458.
Et hebunt in bosco ad del scrogges stac & slac per ouibus suis firmando 1476 Acts Lords Auditors 44/1.
Johne Inglis of Scrogisston
1. sing. (A piece of land covered with) scrub or brushwood, a thicket; a bush. Also attrib.1535 Stewart 56167.
Tha fled to mony wod and scrog c1536 Lynd. Compl. Bagsche 29.
Fyue foullis I chaist outthroch ane scrog 1595 Duncan App. Etym.
Frutex, a scrogattrib. 1596 Dalr. I 288/12.
The kingis body is … castne in a scrogg buss
2. pl. a. (An area of) brushwood or scrub, thickets of bushes and small trees.(1) 1513 Doug. viii vi 88.
This crag and scroggis [Ruddim. skroggis] wirschippit thai 1513 Doug. viii xi 10.
Scroggis and breris all with blude bysprent 1513 Doug. ix Prol. 37.
Scroggis, broym, haddir or rammale 1513 Doug. xiii Prol. 53.
Euery thing that doith repar In firth or feild, flude, forest, erth or ayr, Or in the scroggis, or the buskis ronk 1549 Complaynte of Scotland 20/33.
Al the grond of the palecis … is ouergane vitht gyrse ande vild scroggis 1566-70 Buch. Comm. on Virgil Eclogues i 39.
Arbusta, scroggis(2) 1533 Bell. Livy I 38/24.
He hid ane … buschment of his weremen, in ane myrk and obscure place amang the scroggis of thik rammell
b. Brushwood, etc. as a commodity, cut, or available for cutting, for use as fuel, etc.1553 Acta Conc. Publ. Aff. 622.
[Pursuing for £10,000 in respect of] scroggis and rammald [cut] 1585 (1587) Reg. Great S. 394/1.
To the water of Tay to the south, with the salmond fisching thairin, and woddis and skrogis thairto adjacent 1608 Reg. Privy C. VIII 544.
Yrne that is maid heir is onlie wroght with skrogis, bewghis branches and auld stokis and cuttingis of tymmer 1638 Aboyne Rec. 281.
To be hauldin … irredeimablie … peits turves colls … scrogs busses [etc.] 1664 Kirkcudbr. Sheriff Ct. Deeds I 214.
[Power to the said spouses] to cut and mak use of the busches scroggis and growing timber [of the said lands for repairing the houses] 1669 Burnett Fam. P.
To be haldin all and haill the saids towns and landis … in howsis … woodis broomes bushes scrogis [etc.] 1670 Old Ross-shire I 83.
Deponed he cut no green wood … except some scroges and sneadings
