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(Outreching,) Outreitching, Outreacheing, vbl. n. [Outreche v.] a. ‘Finding’, equipping. = Outreking vbl. n. 1 (3). b. ‘Finding’, obtaining and providing. — 1646 Dumfr. & Galloway Soc. XV. 136.
100 mark of rent for outreitching of Sir John Brownis troop horse 1677 Edgar Old Church Life II. 91.
[For] outreacheing the schoolmaster's fie, [the kirk-session had to send a] decreet east for raising of letters of horning thereupon
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