Scottish National Dictionary (1700–)
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First published 1941 (SND Vol. II).
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†BUSH, n.2 A two- or three-masted vessel of various sizes, used esp. in the Dutch herring-fishery; Mod.Eng. buss. [bʌʃ]Sc. 1707 First Earl of Cromartie in Earls of Crm. (ed. Fraser 1876) II. 44:
Whilst they have so few bushes, yett I shall never beleeve that they shall not hinder the Hollanders, or perhaps others, to fish.Sc. 1721 Ramsay Poems 256:
And Fleets of Bushes fill the Northern-Sea.Sc. 1726 Records Conv. Burghs (1885) 419:
Without the previous expence of building or buying a bush and equipping her with netts.
