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First published 1990 (DOST Vol. VII).
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Quotation dates: 1500-1512, 1569-1685
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Ro, Roe, n.2 [ME and e.m.E. ro (pl. ron; c1275), earlier roa, var. of Ra n.1] The roe, a small species of deer. — c1500-c1512 Dunb. (O.U.P.) 143/78.
Scho send the swyfte ro To bring in beistis of all conditioun a1570-86 Maitland Folio MS 361/53.
Da and ro [: mo, so, two] 1622 Innes Sketches 517.
For takinge of sum deir and rois c1641–54 J. Gordon in Macfarlane's Geog. Coll. II 527.
Dear and roes wonted to be heir, but now ther be none in all Cantyre c1641–54 Ib. 525. 1685 Acts VIII 475/1.
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