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First published 1986 (DOST Vol. VI).
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(Pultry-foull,) Pultrie-foul(l, n. Also: pultré-, pwltry-, powtriei-, powthrie-, poultrie-, poualtrie-, putrie-, puttrie-, pewtrie- and -fowl(e, -fewll. [Pultry n. 3.] A bird of the poultry variety, a domestic fowl.(a) 1537 Liber Dryburgh 283.
Payand … sex pultrie foulles at yuille 1544 Reg. Privy S. III 136/2.
Quinque duodenis de lie pultre foulis 1554 Antiq. Aberd. & B. IV 21.
Summa of pwltry fowlis, 32 dwsen 1574 Ib. II 435. 1607 Dunblane Test. III 109.
Ane dossoun of pultrie foullis pryce of the peice xl d. 1612 Prot. Bk. W. Leslie 6/12.
For fiftie thrie pultrie fowles or for ilk pultrie tua d. 1619 Argyll Rentals I 10.
Pryce of ilk pultrie fowl 30 pennies 1672 Kirkcudbr. Sheriff Ct. Deeds I 439.
With tuelve pultrie fouls and tua fastrenevin henns(b) 1660 Galloway P. 16 March.
And sex keapones or nyne powthrie foulls 1671 Kirkcudbr. Sheriff Ct. Deeds I 261.
[With] thre qwartres of light [and] sixe powtriei fowles(c) 1664 Galloway P. 15 Feb.
Nyne poultrie fowls readie for libing 1668 Forbes Baron Ct. 270.
Four shilling for each poualtrie foull wndelywerit(d) 1601 Brechin Test. I 209b, 210b.
For nyne putrie foullis xx s. … thrie puttrie foullis price of them vj s. 1660 Kirkcudbr. Sheriff Ct. Deeds I 68. 1670 Forbes Baron Ct. 281.
Any putrie foullis or capones 1675 Kirkcudbr. Sheriff Ct. Deeds II 6 (15 May).
[9] putrie foulles(e) 1679 Kirkcudbr. Sheriff Ct. Deeds II 79 (4 June).
[Six] pewtrie fowls 1688 Galloway P. 18 April.
Thrie dossen of pewtrie fewlls