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Were ca(i)rt, Weir ca(i)rt, n. Also: weire cairt, -kart. [Wer(e n.1 and Cart n.1] a. A chariot. b. ? A cart for use in war. Cf. cartis of weire (Wer(e n.1 5 c).a., b. 1513 Doug. viii vii 144.
Ane other sort … The rynnyng quhelys forgis and weir cart [L. currum] Quharwith the men to batale doys he steir 1531 Bell. Boece I 75.
First he send his horsmen, with sindry wageouris in weir-cartis [M. were cairtis], to breke the array and ordinance of Romanis 1531 Bell. Boece (M) I 109.
He dividit his army in sindry batellis, and closit the samyn with weire cairtis and wanys [1821 wanis and cartis] on all sydis 1533 Boece 309a.
Chareotis and were cartis a1538 Abell 14a.
Thare wes … 14 thousand and viii hundreth weire kartis a1538 Abell 17a.
He gart turn his weir cart with his host aganis Jerusalem 1580 Treas. Acc. MS 43 (2).
To John Cairnis that presentit to his maiestie the patroun of a weir cairt
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