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Quotation dates: 1493-1588, 1654-1691
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Flauchter spade, Flachter spade, n. Also: flawchter, flaughter, flachtir; spad, spaid, sped(e, speid. [See Flauchter fale,n.] A spade for cutting turf.(a) 1493 Acts Lords of Council 288/1.
Twa hingand lokis, a flauchter sped, a cruk 1533 Boece xiii. v. 506 b.
The king … saw Gillecriste & his twa sonnys with flauchter spadis castand dovatis 1573 Edinburgh Testaments III. 30 b.
Ane flauchter spaid, ane peit spaid, tua dyke spaidis 1588 Protocol Book of A. Lawson 171 b.
To … delve the grund withe ane flawchter spaid 1654 Ann. Banff I. 138.
To tak faill and cast the same [dike] with flauchter spaids 1691 Foulis Acc. Bk. 135.
A quarrell mell, … and a flauchter spad(b) 1558 Treasurer's Accounts III. 445.
Delvaris with flachter spaidis 1581 Reg. Privy C. III. 445.
[They] tuke the flachtir spade fra thame 1671 Forbes Baron Ct. 285.
[To find out] who hes castin eather with foot spad or flachter spad
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