Scottish National Dictionary (1700–)
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First published 1941 (SND Vol. II). Includes material from the 1976 supplement.
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BREW-. Combs. formed with St.Eng. brew, but not found in St.Eng.
1. †Brew-creesh. Custom paid in tallow or kitchen-fee for liberty to brew. See also brew-tallow.Abd. 1808 Jam.:
Brew-creesh, a term expressive of a duty paid to a landlord or superior, which occurs in old law-deeds. It is still used, Aberd. Sometimes it is called Brew-tallow. This seems to refer to a tax paid for the liberty of brewing.
2. †Brewseat. A piece of land connected with the brewing on an estate.Sc. 1762 in Nairne Peerage Evidence (1873) 94:
And sicklike all and haill that room of land and brewseat lying at the east end of the said loch called Lochend.Ags. 1799 in J. M. Beatts Municipal Hist. of Dundee (1873) 106:
The extent of the town was not so far westward as Tay Street, excepting a straggling brewseat and malt-loft in the Nethergate.Ags. 1845 Stat Acc.2 XI. 183:
The functionaries [since 1747] . . . seem to have conducted themselves with propriety, — the most of them keeping “brewseats”; and . . . the lieges were accustomed, under their auspices, to make up their disputes under a quaich of their favourite beverage.
3. Brewstead, a place for brewing, a brewery.Sc. 1780 Caled. Mercury (2 Dec.):
A Tenement of Houses or Brewstead, with Malt-barn, Kill, Coble, Office-houses, and Yards adjacent.
4. †Brew tallow. Tallow handed over as a tax on private brewing.Mry. 1711 Court Bks. Regality of Grant (ed. Cramond 1897) 20:
Equivalent of Customs — 25th Apr. 1711 Stone of brew tallow, £3 Sc.
