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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
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Ate mele, Ait meil(l, n. Also: aite, aitt, ayt, ayet, eat, eatt, eit (maill, etc.). [Ate n., corr. to ME. ote mele (c 1420).] Meal made from oats; oatmeal.Farina avenatica occurs in 1264 in Exch. R. I. 5.(a) 1478 Acta Aud. 61/1.
The wrangwis withhaldin of vij c. of aite mele 1497 Treas. Acc. I. 343.
For viij bollis of ait mele 1540 Reg. Privy S. II. 559/2.
The gift of lxxxxi bollis of ait mele 1551 Prot. Bk. Sir W. Corbet 16.
iii bollis of hepit ayet meill 1556 Crail B. Ct. Bk. 13.
xvij bollis ayt mayll 1585 Wemyss Chart. 213.
Aught chalderis victuall, tua parte thairoff ait maill, and thrid parte beir 1603 Liber Dryburgh 322.
xxiiij bollis straikit aitt meill 1633 Antiq. Aberd. & B. IV. 137.
To pay to … [the] scholemaister … yearly, ane firlott of ait meall for ilk pleugh of land they possess(b) 1572-5 Diurn. Occurr. 147.
In all this ȝeir [1569] … the boll of eit meill was sauld for iij pundis xij shillingis 1627 Orkney Rentals iii. 56.
Four meillis eatt meille … four meills eat meill 1647 Elgin Rec. I. 183.
Ane firlott eatt meall