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A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)

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First published 1951 (DOST Vol. II).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.

Quotation dates: 1500-1512, 1624

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Gallowbreid, -bread, n. [Gallow n.; e.m.E. breede (1553), f. the verb.] A gallows-bird. —c1500-c1512 Dunb. Flyt. 141.
Thow come in grit neid. Greitand in Galloway, lyk to ane gallow breid
1624 Misc. Abbotsf. C. 143.
Ȝe was angrie, and called him, ‘gallow bread’, quhilk is, hangit man

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