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Fraer, Frair, n. Also: frayur, frayar, frear, freir. [Alteration of Frael,n.] A basket (of figs, dates, or almonds). 1331 Exchequer Rolls I. 392.]
[Onerat se de iijc frayurs ficuum de Malec, receptis de camerariis 1560 Treasurer's Accounts XI. 28.
Twa frayaris feggis 1565 Aberd. Reg. XXV (J).
Fywe half frearis of feggis 1572 Satirical Poems xxxii. 36.
We … wald by ane fraer of fegges 1572-5 Diurnal of Occurrents 292.
The transporting of gold … in ane frear of feggis a1578 Pitsc. II. 278/22.
He had convoyit … fyve freir of feggis to Edinburgh 1597 Bk. Rates 5.
Inuarde custumes … Feggis the frair … xls 1597 Edinburgh Testaments XXXI. 104.
Tua frearis of rasingis, price of the frear xj li. 1628 Reg. Privy C. 2 Ser. II. 191.
Ten barrells and fourtie freirs of rasines 1628 Ib. 199.
Tua hundreth frears of raisins 1676 Dundee B. Laws 160.
John Jolies … made ane offer … of eigh[t] freares with almonds, and eight frears of daitts, … fyve pound wyght to be abeted for eitch frear
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