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First published 2000 (DOST Vol. VIII).
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Schulder blaid, n. Also: -ir; shulder, schwlder, schudder, s(c)houlder, showlder(e, choulder, sulder and blade, blead, bled, blaed. [ME and e.m.E. shudre blade (a1300), shoulder blade (1611); S(c)hulder n.] The shoulder-blade or scapula. c1475 Wall. v 823.
Baith cannell bayne and schuldir blaid in twa, Throuch the myd cost, the gud suerd gert he ga 1572–3 Reg. Privy C. II 205.
Stevin Urde … straik the said Jonet upoun hir schulder blaid with the kavill of ane mylne, and mutilat hir of hir left arme and schulder a1578 Pitsc. II 140/18.
Bot the laird … ran his marrow … out throw the schoulder blaid 1585 Waus Corr. 337.
I pat my schulder bled out of lithe 1590 Reg. Privy C. IV 488.
[He] feld him to the ground and brak his schulder blaid 1594 Breadalbane Ct. Bk. 53.
Striking him with ane knyff on his sulder bled 1603 Moysie 116.
His horse fell and strouk his choulder blead out of lithe 1628 Maxwell Mem. 481.
Schudder blaid 1632 Monteith Stewartry Ct. 23 Feb.
For … curing of his schwlder blead 1649 Cupar Presb. 136.
His armes werre wett to the showlder blaids Ib. 139.
Showldere blaeds c1678 Reg. Panmure I lxv.
Shulder blead 1681 Colvil Whig's Suppl. (1681) i 54.
Some mean their elbow, some their head, Some cry, alas, their shoulder-blade