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†BREWSEAT, n.
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.
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