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Quotation dates: 1583-1685
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Porring-irne, Purring-iron, n. Also: por-, poir-, pooring-, purringe-, puring- and -yrne, -irone, -yrone. [e.m.E. poorynge (1519), porrynge, vbl. n. of Porr- v., and Irne n. Only Sc. Also in the mod. dial.] A poker.(a) 1583 Edinburgh Testaments XIII 45.
Ane chymnay of irne … with … tua pair of tayngis & ane porring irne 1593 Ib. XXV 288. 1596 Fraser P. 229. 1605 Edinburgh Testaments XL 228 b.
Ane littill irne chymnay with tayngis speitt rakis cruik & porring irne pertening thairto 1617 Ib. L 24 b. 1631 Ib. LV 80 b. 1635 Cochran-Patrick Coinage II 47.
In the melting-hous … Ane porring yrne 1667 Strathblane Par. 318. 1685 Proceedings of Society of Antiquaries LVIII 354.
An iron porring iron(b) 1607 Edinburgh Testaments XLIII 46 b.
Ane irne chymnay witht ane pair of taingis ane poring irne 1669 Ib. LXXIV 36 b.
Ane dreiping pan, ane poring irone(c) 1632 Edinburgh Testaments LV 178.
Poiring irone(d) 1657 Edinburgh Testaments LXIX 15 b.
Ane yron braisse with connexes, pooring yrone, clips and tangs(e) 1587 Montgomery Mem. 341.
Ane puring iron(f) 1627 Brechin Testaments IV 291.
Tua pair taingis with purringe ironis 1655 Edinburgh Testaments LXVIII 76.
Purring irones 1660 Wedderburn Bk. II 44. 1684 Brechin Testaments VII 109.
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