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Sclate-hous, Sclait(t)-hous(e, Slait(t)-hous, n. Also: sklate-, sklait(t)-, sclat-, sklat(t)-; slet- and -houss(e. [Sclate n. and Hous n.] A house with a slate roof.(a) 1435 Ayr B. Ct. 3 Oct.
Twa markis of annuale rentis out of his sklate hous 1448 Aberd. B. Rec. I 17.
Ane other litil sclate house liand in the Chekar 1483 Reg. Episc. Brechin. II 116.
Ad magnam anteriorem domum vulgariter dictam Richart Chapmanis foyr sklatt hous 1489 Dunferm. B. Rec. I 13.
John Orok of the sklathous one kyrkyard dik 1495 Exch. R. X 494.
Et de firma domus alias constructe apud Blaknes, nuncupate le Sklatehouse 1565 Prot. Bk. W. Cumming 33b.
The sclat hous be vest the cors 1576 Ib. 162.
The hyche hous callit the slet hous 1646 Retours I Inq. Spec. Haddington (205).
Lie girnells et sklathouses apud lie Sandwell a1651 Calderwood VII 607.
The fire … brunt the whole toun, some few sclat houses excepted 1679 Galloway P. 17 April.
Sclat housse(b) 1506 Prot. Bk. J. Young 369.
The sclait house of the saide land … with the equale part of the orcheart and erable land 1511 Reg. Privy S. I 351/2.
To sell and analy … the dowcroft and sklaithous in Kirkcudbrycht 1535 Selkirk B. Ct. (ed.) 155.
Ane tenement of land … callit the sclaithous 1542 Treas. Acc. VIII 94.
For … beting and pointing of the mekle sklait hous, at the abbay ȝet to kepe the munitionis 1553–4 Reg. Great S. 198/1.
De domo tegulata, vulgo ane sklait hous 1564–5 Linlithgow B. Ct. 10 March.
The sclaithous in Blaknes 1572 Prot. Bk. J. Robeson 130b.
The sklait hous of the said … land 1581 Inverness Rec. I 290. 1583 Glasgow Prot. VIII 80.
Thee heich sclait hows nixt adjacent to the foir hows of … Thomas Kennedy 1588 Exch. R. XXI 405.
Sclaitt hous 1599 M. Works Acc. (ed.) I 316.
Sklaitt hous 1600 Retours II Inq. Spec. Wigton (20).
Cum alia domo vulgo vocata The Abbot of Glenluce's Skaithouse [? for sklait-] 1611 Kirkcudbr. B. Rec. II 87.
His buithis of the sklaithous 1649 Cramond Ch. Rathven 19.
A sklaithouse, watertight 1677 Cullen Kirk S. 1 Sept.
Ane sklait house built therupon by me for the mantenance of ane poor schooll boy … as the mortificatione beares 1688 T. Brown Diary 53.
Jon. Traill's meikle sclait houss in Kirkwall(c) 1533 Wigtown B. Ct. fol. 284a.
For the wrangus occupying of the lytyll slait hovs 1664 Peebles B. Rec. II 61.
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