Scottish National Dictionary (1700–)
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Quotation dates: 1780
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GUNDY, n.2 A push, shove (Ags. 1894 J. B. Salmond My Man Sandy (1899) 31). Comb. ¶gundyman, see quot.Ayr. 1780 Westminster Gaz. (13 March, 1893):
There were then three individuals to the plough—a gaudsman, the ploughman, and a “gundyman”, with a long pole fastened to the beam of the plough (which was then all wood save “the metals”), and whose business it was to aid the ploughman by pushing the plough off, or to him, as occasion required.
[A variant spelling of Jundie. There is some doubt about the authenticity of gundyman.]
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