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Scalding, Skalding, n. Also: scadd-, skadd-, scawd- and -yng, -yn(e; schawdyn. [ME scaldyng ? the carcass of a ‘scald’ sheep (1302–3), skaldyng (1338), scaldyng (once, 1429) a sheepskin of small value, ? one taken from a ‘scald’ sheep; ? Scald adj.] ? The skin of a ‘scald’ sheep. Also (once) coll., and attrib. with skin. —(a) 1374 Exch. R. II 453.
Per vendicionem … pellium, que dicuntur schorlyngis et scaldyngis 1435 Ib. IV 604, etc.
De custuma mille … pellium que dicuntur skaldinggis 1442 Aberd. B. Rec. MS V ii p. 654 (27 April).
That naman by woll skynnys derar than x d. schorlynges vj d. scaldynes iij d. the dusane 1451 Edinb. Chart. 72.
Pellium … vulgariter dictarum schorlingis, skaldingis, futefellis, … lameskynnys, todskynnis [etc.] 1455 Exch. R. VI 11.
Skaldynis 1482 Edinb. Chart. 167. 1529 Conv. Burghs I 511.
That na skynnaris … by ony manner of skynnis bot schorlingis and scaldingis 1531 E. Loth. Antiq. Soc. VI 34.
A charter of Kyng James the Secound of the schowrlyngs and schawdyns 1534 Exch. R. XVI 360.
20 s. custom of 160 woolfells; 6 s. 8 d. of 100 schorlings; 13 s. 4 d. of 200 scawdings and mortwells; 16 s. 8 d. of 1000 lambskins 1549 Stirling B. Rec. I 57. 1592 Acts III 580/2.
Skynnis vndirwrittin callit in the vulgar toung scorlingis scaldingis futefaillis [etc.] 1684 Jervise Memor. Angus & Mearns II 300.
[Also payments of feus in] truffes and scaldings(b) 1603 Reg. Great S. 515/1.
Skaddyngiscoll. 1553 Dundee B. Ct. II fol. 246 (28 Aug.).
To George Lovell for makyng of the expensis vpon the skadding & schorlingattrib. 1527 Stirling B. Rec. I 31.
That na marchand … by ony calfe skennis, kid skennis, na skalding skennis 1594 Edinb. Test. XXVII 298b.
Aucht scoir of beir bakis alias scadding skynnis at iij li. the scoir
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