A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1990 (DOST Vol. VII).
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Rouming, vbl. n.2 [Roum v.3 b.] Only in souming and rouming, ‘estimating the number of animals which each tenant may pasture on the common ground’ (SND, s.v. Room v. 1). —1671 Holmains Baron Ct. 16 Oct.]
[It is ordanit that within the toun of Meikle Dalton in the year 1672 there shall be souming and rouming 1681 Stair Inst. ii vii §14.
It is accustomed in some places, to regulate common pasturage by souming and rouming, which is the determining of the several soums it may hold, by particular proportion of every room of the dominant tenement
