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First published 1965 (SND Vol. VI).
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Quotation dates: 1700-1745, 1898
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MULLER, n.1 Also mullar; millar. A frame or moulding; in Heriot's School slang: a ledge or string-course on a building. Hence mullery, shaped and ornamented like a moulding, moulded.Sc. 1700 Edb. Gazette (27–30 May):
Two Large fine Pictures of King William and Queen Mary, with Guilded Mullers.Gsw. 1718 Burgh Rec. Gsw. (1909) 7:
The braces in the said tenement being all of mullery work, except the kitchen braces.Rs. 1719 W. MacGill Old Ross. (1909) 64:
To books, Latine Greek and English and for sex maps and securing them with mullars . . . £60. 9.Abd. 1745 Powis Papers (S.C.) 288:
To a new Mullet [sic] for a Skailiebroad.Edb. 1898 J. Baillie Walter Crighton 70:
Up it goes against the wall, just a little above the first millar, and with such a force that it rebounds nearly to the centre of the square.
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