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First published 2000 (DOST Vol. VIII).
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Scheth, n.¹ Also: scheitht. [Cf. WFlem. schet, schette rail, bar of a gate, palisade, with which this is cognate. Cf. also later north. Eng. dial. sheth a crossbar of a harrow (1788), a bar or rib for the bottom or sides of a cart (1764), a group of parallel strips of ploughed land (1829).] a. ? One of the cross-timbers forming the framework for the bottom of a cart. b. ? A group of parallel rigs, or strips, of land. —a. 1496 Treas. Acc. I 281.
To Will Walkar of Leith, for xxiiij schort treis to be schethis to the cartis, xxiiij s. Ib. 291.
For iij treis in Leith to the feys and schethis to the serpentyn cartis 1529–30 M. Works Acc. (ed.) I 17.
To ane wrychtis vagis … mendand scheithtis to the iiii cartis 1532 Ib. 114.
For beting and mending of the tua cartis … tua new extreis and certane schethes —b. 1431 Liber Melros II 524.
Sexten akris of land togithir lyand in the samyn scheth of land west fra the said Saynte Mary rig