Scottish National Dictionary (1700–)
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First published 1952 (SND Vol. III). Includes material from the 1976 supplement.
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Quotation dates: 1763-1772, 1833-1854
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†DRAPPER, n. 1. Sc. form of Eng. dropper, one who drops seeds into the holes made by a dibbler.Sc. 1763 Scots Mag. (Feb.) 117:
We saw [him] measure an exact peck of potatoes; and which we then saw planted with the dible and drapper.Sc. 1770–72 A. Hunter Georgical Essays (1803) II. 356:
An active dibbler . . . with three droppers at sevenpence per day.
2. A kind of potato.Ayr. 1833 J. Kennedy G. Chalmers 150:
Till the Bailie's peat-stack tells An'ra Luggiehead's tattie-bing, hoo mony drappers it has wasted to the foul thief for naething! Lnk. a.1854 W. Watson Poems (1877) 133:
Tho' our Reds, Cups, an' Drappers, an a' tak the gee, 'Tis the hardiest meal that comes through the mill-ee.
