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Scottish National Dictionary (1700–)

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First published 1956 (SND Vol. IV).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.

†FETTER-LOCK, n. comb. A kind of spring padlock; a kind of hobble for a horse.Sc. 1725 Ramsay T. T.Misc. (1876) I. 175:
A pair of branks, and a fetter lock.Sc. 1733 Orpheus Caledonius II. 99:
A Fetter-lock, a Trump of Steel.

[O.Sc. fet(t)erlock, id., 1390, from fetter + lock. The Bannatyne MS. (1568) has fetterit lok, in the quot. adapted by Ramsay.]

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