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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
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Quotation dates: 1535-1603, 1681
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Birsket, Birsquet, n.2 Also: briscat. [Variant of brisket. Cf. e.m.E. bysket (1610) and Sc. dial. bisket.] The breast (esp. of a sheep). 1535 Stewart 2954.
The wricht [had] the neiris and the briscat smaw 1572 Satirical Poems xxxii. 77.
Smaikis … Hes schot my wyfe throw birsket, lyre, and fell 1573 Edinb. B. Rec. IV. 5.
The quarter of ane [scheip] skyn with the woll cuttit round about the nek and sua forduart to the birsquet [printed birsynet] 1603 Shetland Sheriff Ct. 81 b.
Scho sta … certane quhyt dry scheipe pudding with twa birskettis of ane scheipe 1681 Foulis Acc. Bk. 103.
For a bakrips and birsket [of] mutton when the chanclour was buried
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