Scottish National Dictionary (1700–)
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First published 1974 (SND Vol. IX).
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VICTOR, n. Sc. usages:
1. The head pupil or dux of a school. Obs. c.1700.Sc. 1724 R. Wodrow Life J. Wodrow (1828) 78:
The Archbishop Paterson's second son was then in it [school], and was what we then called victor.
2. The victorious cock in the Shrovetide cock-fights in Sc. schools. Phr. victor's man, the defeated cock in the final contest.w.Lth. 1868 A. Dawson Rambling Recoll. 23:
The victors of these duels were again opponents, and so on till the combatants were reduced to the last pair, when the winning bird was declared to be “victor”, and the defeated “victor's man”.
