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First published 2001 (DOST Vol. IX).
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Souming, , vbl. n. [Soum v.² Also in later Sc.] a. The action of Soum v.² Also, souming and rouming (see Rouming vbl. n.²). b. The pasturing (of an animal). —a. 1461 Strathendrick 212.
[Thus on 1st July 1461,] John Blar of Fynwyk [was present at a court held by Friar Henry de Livingstone to determine the proper] souming [of a temple land near Buchanan] — 1647 Peebles Gleanings 295.
The bailyeis and utheris anent the sowming and rowming of Kaidmure declairis thair was of milk guidis of the tounes and thair hirdis ellevin scoir — 1681 Stair Inst. ii vii § 14.
It is accustomed in some places, to regulate common pasturage by souming and rouming, which is the determining of the several soums it may hold, by particular proportion of every room of the dominant tenement —b. 1511 Prestwick B. Rec. 43.
Fyf s. ij d. for ij ȝeris foddering & soumyng of j blak kowe