Scottish National Dictionary (1700–)
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First published 1968 (SND Vol. VII).
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Quotation dates: 1933-1957
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PLOWT, n.3A popular name for the Fleshmarket Close in Edinburgh, which was orig. the meat-market and slaughterhouse (Edb. 1942 Edb. Ev. Dispatch (29 July)).Edb. 1933 Edb. Ev. Dispatch (18 Aug.):
The Fleshmarket Close, known as the “Plowt”, where boys came from all parts of the city to buy or sell pigeons.Sc. 1957 Daily Express (9 Jan.) 6:
Edinburgh's old poultry-market in Fleshmarket-close, which old-timers remember as the Plowt. . . . Two boys look at rabbits in a corner of the Plowt, the poultry market in Fleshmarket-close.
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