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First published 1951 (DOST Vol. II).
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Granale, -all(e, -ell, n. [Var. of Garnale, perh. after L. grānārium.] a. A granary or girnel. b. A store-house for salt.a (a) 1508 Reg. Cupar A. I. 273.
Payand ȝerly … thre bollis of beir … to be delyuerit in our granalis of Couper 1518 Acta Conc. MS. XXXI. 109.
Six chalders to be takin of the granale of Driburgh 1562 Will A. Betoun 225.
Twa meil granalis and ane candill kyst(b) 1513 Treas. Acc. IV. 418.
To [the King's granator general], for expens maid be him on the mending of the Kingis granellis 1533 Boece ix. x. 311.
Convall … decretit that all teyndis of the ground suld be caryit to the granellis of the kirkmen 1583 St. A. Test. II. 2.
In the granell ten bollis maltb. 1531 Reg. Soltre 108.
My salt pan with the hous and granalle off my landis of the Blair 1581 Ib. 196.
The pan hous granall, sext part of custome of the pannis that gangis tharin