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First published 1941 (SND Vol. II). Includes material from the 2005 supplement.
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BOTHIER, n. One living in a bothy (Abd. 1903 Abd. Wkly. Free Press (4 April) in E.D.D. Suppl.); a regular user of mountain huts. Cf. bothie-man s.v. Bothy. [′bɔθɪər]m.Sc. 1987 Dave Brown and Ian Mitchell Mountain Days and Bothy Nights (1992) 122:
The most famous of bothiers, Jock Nimlin, when denied the use of the bridges, hit upon an ingenious solution to the problem of dossing at Sligachan without a tent.
