Scottish National Dictionary (1700–)
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First published 1965 (SND Vol. VI).
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OUTROOM, n. Also out-roum, oot-room. [′utrum]
1. A room attached to a cottage, and under the same roof, but entered from the outside by a separate door (Abd. 1880), specif. in the weaving village of New Pitsligo in Abd., where the outroom was used as the loom-shop, now obsol. Obs. in Eng. a.1700.Abd. 1955 Buchan Observer (20 Sept.):
A well built stone and lime dwelling, but-and-ben, with a single independent room attached (called the “oot-room”) cost £30 in those days.
2. See quots. and Room.Mry. 1758 Session Papers, Urquhart v. Rose (12 Dec.) 11:
The Tenants could not pay the above Farms, the Lands being Out-rooms.Ags. 1873 Trans. Highl. Soc. 306:
In Forfarshire, out-roums or grass-farms were held and rented in common, in a somewhat similar way by the tenants of certain proprietors.
