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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
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Cartar(e, Carter, n.¹ Also: cairtar, -air, -er. [ME. cartare (a 1250), carter(e, f. Cart n.¹ See also Karter n.¹] A carter. Also poet., a charioteer.Early examples occur c 1250 in the place-names Carterford and Cartergate (Liber Calchou 91).(a) c1475 Wall. ix. 717.
Thir cartaris had schort suerdis … Wndyr thar weidis Ib. 721.
Thir trew cartaris a1500 Colk. Sow i. 58.
Scho callit to hir cheir … A cairtar, a cariar 1494 Treas. Acc. I. 254.
For the tursing of … ane barrell of ter and othir gere, to ane cartar, xlv. s. 1506 Ib. III. 142.
To cartaris that drew thre falconis and the bumbard to Leith 1513 Doug. xii. xi. 23.
Scho that was turnyt … In semland of Metiscus the cartar c1552 Lynd. Mon. 550.
To colȝearis, cairtaris, and to cukis, … my ryme sall be diractit 1586 Liber Scon 231.
The cairtair aicker and the dempstare croft(b) 1500 (c 1580) Edinb. B. Rec. I. 84.
That the cairteris of Leyth may thair resaue the samyn [gudis] 1554 Ib. II. 193.
To pay the workmen, merchantis, carteris … and vtheris that furnist the grayth to the convoy [etc.] Ib. 281.
The … merchands, carteris, and pyonars