Scottish National Dictionary (1700–)
Hide Quotations Hide Etymology
About this entry:
First published 1968 (SND Vol. VII).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.
PLOWT, n.3A popular name for the Fleshmarket Close in Edinburgh, which was orig. the meat-market and slaughterhouse (Edb. 1942 Edb. Ev. Dispatch (29 July)).Edb. 1933 Edb. Ev. Dispatch (18 Aug.):
The Fleshmarket Close, known as the “Plowt”, where boys came from all parts of the city to buy or sell pigeons.Sc. 1957 Daily Express (9 Jan.) 6:
Edinburgh's old poultry-market in Fleshmarket-close, which old-timers remember as the Plowt. . . . Two boys look at rabbits in a corner of the Plowt, the poultry market in Fleshmarket-close.
