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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
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(Ate-sede,) Ait-seid, n. Also: aite seide, aatt-seid. [Ate n.] The seed of oats; the time for sowing oats. 1531 Acta Conc. MS. XLII. 149.
Labouring of the ground and sawing of the aite seide and beir seid 1555 Prot. Bk. T. Dalrymple 18 b.
The said Alexander … sall fynd … ane hors to the harrowing of the aatt seid & beir-seid 1572 Peebles B. Rec. 354.
To ilk quarter of the tovne ane wautsche daylie quhill the ait and bear seid be sawin 1587 Acts III. 447/2.
That the haill moneth of Merche salbe vacance for the aitseid

b. Attrib. in ait seid time. 1586 Edinb. Test. XVII. 21.
Tua bollis aittis or than the price thairof, as aittis sellis in ait seid tyme 1628 Reg. Privy C. 2nd Ser. II. 602.
Being impeidit to cum hither be … labouring now in tyme of feriot aitseed and beirseede tyme 1642 Melrose Reg. Rec. I. 91.
A dayes work of a horse and a man in aitseed tyme and another in bearseed tyme 1661 Soc. Ant. XXII. 253.
Before the last ait seed tyme