Dictionaries of the Scots Language
Dictionars o the Scots Leid

A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)

Hide Quotations Hide Etymology

Abbreviations Cite this entry

About this entry:
First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.

Bulget, n. Also: bulgett, -geat, -git; bowlgiet. [e.m.E. bougette, bogette, etc., ME. bowgette (a 1450), OF. bougette, boulgette, dim. of boulge leather bag.] A (leather) pouch, bag, or sack; a budget. 1473 Treas. Acc. I. 44.
For panȝell crelis to the Qwene … Item, for a pare of bulgets 1492 Ib. 201.
For a bulget to Dave Ogilbe, to twrs the commissionis and oderis letteris 1502–3 Ib. II. 359.
For ane pair of bulgeatis to the silver weschale 1504 Halyb. 235.
Coft in Handwarp … , and pakit in a bowlgiet, iij lb. of peper 1511–2 Treas. Acc. IV. 329.
For tua bulgettes to the maister cuik to turse the silvir weschell in 1537 Bk. Carlaverock II. 23.
The said abbot [etc.] … to pas throuch ȝour realme with thair horses, … bulgettis, ferdellis, jowellis, … and all uthiris gudis lefull 1546 Aberd. B. Rec. I. 238.
I deliuerit to the said [persons] … ane bulget of blak ledder, lokit with tua lokis, … within the quhilk bulget was contenit this geir following 15.. Clar. iii. 446.
Ane messinger … in his drukinnes, … Out of his bulgit schuik his letters all Ib. iv. 290.
Ane bulget … of ane hudge weight 1561 Admir. Ct. Bk. MS. 118 b.
The … wrangus spoliacioun … of his lokit bulget and thairin iiij^c ten pundis 1570 Edinb. Test. I. 40 b.
Twa litill bulgettis, price of the pece xii s. 1584 Ib. XIV. 106 b.
Ane dosane of bulgettis 1594 Ib. XXVII. 218.
Thair was in ane ledder purs within his bulgett xlviij dolouris 1602 Treas. Acc. MS. 182.
Tua pair of greit leddir bulgettis for carying of thair maiesteis siluir veschell 1610 Conv. Burghs II. 297.
[The] conservator and his deputtis, quha compellit his monye being in his bulgett to contribute 1614 Lett. Eccles. Affairs II. 385.
In his bulget we haif found his vestmentis and other furniture for the masse 1621 Edinb. Test. LI. 63.
Four bulgettis at fourtie schillingis the peceattrib. 1587 Edinb. Test. XVII. 206.
Sax bulget lokkis at xviij d. the pece