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First published 1952 (SND Vol. III). Includes material from the 1976 and 2005 supplements.
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CORDINER, Cordner, Kordaner, n. Sc. forms of arch. Eng. cordwainer, a shoemaker. Known to Abd.22, Lnl.1 1937. The form kordaner is given by Angus Gl. (1914) for Sh. and W. Cadenhead in Flights of Fancy (1853) 248 gives the form cordiwaner for Abd. Familiar dim. form cordy (Abd. 1853 W. Cadenhead Flights 248). [′kɔrd(ə)nər]Sc. 1936 St Andrews Cit. (12 Sept.) 4/4:
Her grandfather, D. R., cordiner, of Brechin.Mearns 1698 in J. Anderson Black Book of Kincardineshire (1879) 46:
John Sherret, Cordiner . . . confessed . . . he did steal two half hides out of the bark fatt of Alexander Cruickshank.Slg. 1726 D. B. Morris in Trans. Slg. Nat. Hist. and Arch. Soc. (1924–25) 15:
Their [shoemakers'] trade and handycraft and priviledge thereof is by far most encroached upon by country cordners.Edb. 1753 W. Maitland Hist. of Edb. 305:
The Corporation of Cordiners . . . were at first erected into a Fraternity by a Charter from the Town Council of Edinburgh . . . in . . . 1449.Edb. 1928 D. Robertson and M. Wood Castle and Town 75:
In 1911 the Incorporation of Cordiners presented to the Court a scheme to regulate the admission of new members.wm.Sc. 1980 Anna Blair The Rowan on the Ridge 54:
"And get your children to the school-room. There are pamphlets and books on the new ways that would be useful to you, and a bit of learning will stand them well for their own work whether they're farmers or cordiners or dominies or whatever."Gsw. 1939 (per Abd.16):
The Cordiners are one of the Incorporated Trades of Glasgow.
