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First published 1951 (DOST Vol. II).
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Girdill, Girdell, n.² Also: gyrdil, girdil, -ile, -yle, girdle. [e.m.E. gyrdle (1563), var. of ME. grydel, etc. (griddle). In later Eng. chiefly northern dial.] A circular iron plate used for baking cakes or scones. 14.. Acts I. 44/2.
The ayre … sall hafe … a rostyng yrne, a girdill [etc.] 1457 Peebles B. Rec. 119.
A girdil and a bakbrid 1474 Prestwick B. Rec. 23.
He had occupiit wrangwisli … his girdill and a bakstwle 1519 Reg. Episc. Aberd. II. 177.
The baikhous with … ij bakin stulis and ane ald girdyle 1563 Aberd. B. Rec. I. 356.
That na … caik baxter [bake] ony caikis to be sauld, vnder the pain foirsaid and siclyke vnder the pane of the caik baxteris girdile 1586 Edinb. Test. XV. 121 b.
lxx litill foure futtit girdillis, … thrie fyve futit girdillis, … xx thrie futtit girdillis 1596 Dalr. I. 95/12.
Frahand thay make breid after casting it vpon the girdle 1604 Elgin Rec. II. 119.
Jonnet deponit that scho hard another [woman] bewest hir ringand a girdell 1628 Reg. Privy C. 2 Ser. II. 579.
The ringing of girdlis ilk tuelffth evining att my dors in gritt contempt is a yeirlie tribute quhilk thai pay me dewlie 1681 Colvil Whig's Suppl. ii. 8.
There lys of oat-meal neer a peck, With waters help which girdles hot bakes, And turns to bannocks, and to oat cakes 1689 Conv. Burghs IV. 92.
[The petition of Culros] bearing ther distressed condition throw … ther decay of trade in making of girdells 1699 Rec. Old Aberd. I. 164.
The complaint … against Alex^r Anderson … for haveing of a bigg iron girdle and hyring the samen for drying of bearattrib. 15.. Lichtoun Dreme 68 (B).
He had ane cloik … Of ganand graith of gude gray girdill feit