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First published 2000 (DOST Vol. VIII).
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Quotation dates: 1595-1687
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(Schere-burd,) Scheir-buird, n. Also: shayre-, shear- and -bord, -board. (e.m.E. shearborde (1562) ‘a padded board over which the cloth was stretched for cropping with hand-shears’ (OED s.v. shear board n.); Scher(e n.1 or Scher(e v.) — 1595 Edinburgh Testaments XXVIII 233.
Ane walkeris scheir buird 1633 Ib. LVI 137.
Sex shayris … ane shayre buird 1682 New Mills Manuf. 23.
2 peeces of pompillion for the shear-bords about 36 yards per peece 1687 Ib. 159.
They … apoynt Alexander Watt … ane shearboard by himself
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