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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
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Ate brede, Ait breid, n. Also: ait, aitt, eit, eat (breid, etc.). [Ate n., corr. to e.m.E. ote bread (1579).] Bread made from oats.(a) 1549 Ann. Banff I. 24.
The quhitt breid and aitt breid to be sauld … as the prices of quhytt and meill stands for the tyme 1569 Peebles B. Rec. 309.
That thair be na ait breid bakin in this tovne, bot that the baxstaris baik kakis 1596 Dalr. I. 6 marg.
Of ate brede called houer brede in Ingland 1608 Mun. Univ. Glasg. III. 520.
Ane soup of ait breid and ane drink 1656 Aberd. B. Rec. IV. 162.
The counsell discharges all ait bread to be baikin, except aucht d. ait loaves(b) a1605 Montg. Sonn. xxv. 7.
Eit bread, ill aill, and all things are ane eik 1608 St. A. Baxter Bks. 72.
Quhatsumewir brother … sall baik eat bread heireftir, except it be of cleane eat meill, … sall pay iiii li. money 1638–9 Misc. Spald. C. V. 154.
To Alex Willeamson, baxter, for eat breid furnest be him