Scottish National Dictionary (1700–)
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First published 1965 (SND Vol. VI). Includes material from the 1976 supplement.
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‡MAP, n.2 Also mapp. Sc. forms of Eng. mop (Sc. a.1758 Ramsay Poems (S.T.S.) III. 299; Uls. 1880 Patterson Gl.). See P.L.D. § 54.
In 1720 quot. used of a priest's aspergillum.Edb. 1720 W. Mitchel Mistery of France and England 7:
He hath a long Map; he dips it in Water and slings it among the People.Abd. 1731 Monymusk Papers (S.H.S.) 3:
A washing rubber, . . . a dusting brod, two mapps.
