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First published 1974 (SND Vol. IX).
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TULBERT, n. Also tulber-, tillberd-. Only in comb. tulber(t) scatt, a rent or payment made for the privilege of grazing one's stock on pasture occupied by another, specif. as in 1772 quot. Hist.; any small or trivial share in anything.Sh. 1772 A. C. O'Dell Hist. Geog. Sh. Islands (1939) 242:
Setter-lands, which are numerous and at different periods enclosed from or upon the Scattalds already paying Scatt, never paid Scatt to the Crown, but very often pay a subsidiary Scatt to the dominant tenant called a Tulbert Scatt.Ork. 1860 D. Balfour Odal Rights 119:
Tulberskatt: A fine or rent exacted by the Vard-Thing from unentitled intruders on the Moar of its Herald [i.e. the skattald].Sh. 1908 Jak. (1928):
He shoved him aff wi' a tillberdskatt.