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First published 1986 (DOST Vol. VI).
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(Pultryman,) Pultr(i)eman, Pultriman, Pultréman, n. Also: powtrie-, poultry-, poultrie-, putri-. [Pultry n. 3. Appar. more often written as one word. Only Sc.] A poulterer. a. A household officer who attended to the provision of poultry, a purveyor of poultry. b. A man who deals in poultry, a poultry-seller. Also attrib.a. 1538 Treas. Acc. VI 447.
Pultreman Ib. VII 126.
Schir Johnne M^cCaw, katour, and Johnne M^cCaw, pultreman, [etc.] 1631 Buccleuch Household Bk. 1 Oct.
For 3 hens bocht from the prince his pultrie manb. (a) 1562 Linlithgow Sheriff Ct. 13 June.
Johnne Hendersoun pultreman in Edinburght xxv s. 1573–74 Reg. Privy C. II 338.
Flescheouris, … commoun cuikis, pultre men, and sic utheris as sellis or makis reddy flesche 1594 Edinb. B. Rec. V 123.
Understanding that the pultriemen within this burgh abuses the landwert pultriemen … [the council] ordanis [etc.] 1614 Ib. VI 118.
Any pultrie castin furth of the pultriemens houssis 1617 Edinb. Test. L 7.
Charles Ros pultriman 1622 Misc. Hist. Soc. III 196.
Pultriman 1627 Justiciary Cases I 74.
Pultrieman 1643 Ib. III 613. 1649 Index Edinb. Test. II 229.
Pultriman(b) 1627 Reg. Privy C. 2 Ser. II 95.
Powtrie man(c) 1605 Index. Edinb. Test. I 252.
Poultryman 1664 Ib. II 150.
Poultrie-man 1687 Lauder Notices Affairs II 807.
The vintners doe not observe the … table of wild-foull in buying them from the poultrymenattrib. 1658–1700 Greyfriars Interments 470.
Poultry man servant(d) 1665 Index Edinb. Test. II 286.
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