Scottish National Dictionary (1700–)
Hide Quotations Hide Etymology
About this entry:
First published 1965 (SND Vol. VI).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.
¶LOGGAGE, n.1 In phr. foggage and loggage. ? Cf. Foggage.Sc. 1729 W. Macintosh Essay on Inclosing 56:
How many good Estates in Scotland, the Consumption of what they call Foggage and Loggage, has rendered of much less Value than formerly they were? And any of their plow'd fields the richer? That as many, yea more Acres about that Estate, as good Soil in its Nature, yea many better, have been swarded, dug up, and carried on to cover a worse Soil.
