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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
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Buttereis, Butt(e)rage, n. Also: buteras, butreis, butris, buttere; butteraige, -ege, betterage, butradge. [e.m.E. butt(e)resse, butteras, ME. butres, bot(e)ras, boterace (Wyclif), of doubtful origin.] A buttress.The form buttere is a false singular from buttereis taken a plural. With the forms in -age, etc., cf. 18th c. Eng. butteridge.(a) 1387 Edinb. Chart. 35.
The buteras [to be] fynyt wp als hech as the laue of that werk askys 1501 Doug. Pal. Hon. iii. 150.
Subtile muldrie wrocht mony day agone, On buttereis, jalme, pillaris and plesand springis 1542 Soc. Ant. III. 162.
The saidis buttereis [of the church] to be compleit endit as thai ar now foundit Ib. 163.
Ilk buttere of the foirsaid kirk and queir to haif ane honeste fiall 1560–1 Edinb. Old Acc. II. 140.
Ane rewll and ane bot to the butreis of the pulpit 1584 Cart. S. Nich. Aberd. 387.
For pyinin of the butrisis of Jesus yll … and mending of the ragglin of the librar(b) 1559 Edinb. B. Rec. III. 35.
Thair was ane waist place be eist the butterege on the eist syde of the northe kirk durre Ib. 36.
Nocht passand farther furthe nor the breid of the saidis butteraigis 1563 = 4 Edinb. Old Acc. I. 466.
V greitt flaggis to mend the betterage of the west syde of the malt myln 1588 Edinb. D. Guild Acc. 331.
For … mending the buttrages at the northe kirk dur 1608 Glasgow B. Rec. I. 286.
That ane bulwork or butradge be bigit befoir the yonmest piller of the said brig except ane