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First published 2001 (DOST Vol. IX).
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Stane wall, n. Also: ston(e)-. [ME and e.m.E. stan wal (Layamon), ston wal (Chaucer), stoon wal (1463), stone wall (1546); Stan(e n. and Wal(l n.] A wall built of stone, esp. the wall of a house or other building; less commonly, a boundary wall (cf. Stane dyk(e n.). Also in fig. context.(1) 1488 Acta Aud. 126/1.
For … causing of James Ancrome, masoun, to … cast doun a kiching & a stane wall of a … tenement 1561–2 Edinb. Old Acc. II 156.
The new laiche Tolbuith, efter the beiging of the new stane wall 1568 Anderson Collect. Mary IV 164.
Thomas Nelson … scaped by reason of a gret ston wall betwixt the kings chamber and that place wherin he did lye 1588 Aberd. B. Rec. II 61.
In … altering of the stane wall of the said poirt … and making his windois and eismentis thairin 1597–8 Misc. Spald. C. II 140.
The stane wall that circuattis the said colledge at the south 1643 Dunferm. Ann. 310.
It was … grantit to the smythes to tak doun the stane wall at the side and entrie of thar seate … and instead of that little stane wall, to mak ane side entrie of tember to thar seate 1659 Edinb. B. Rec. IX 157.
The hous to be of stone walls 1661 Lamont Diary 138.
The stone wall at Lundy, with the corball stones att the tope of it, on the north syde of the closse that goes from the stabell to the brew-house was buelt … they were nire a months tyme in buelding of it … It tooke nireby fourtie bolls of lyme stones 1666 Edinb. B. Rec. X 11.
The … janitor had at his owen hand strucke through twa ston walls for brewing of drink … and being challenged for breaking through the wall [etc.] 1682 New Mills Manuf. 37.
Thatt the house … be devided with a ston wall(2) a1578 Pitsc. II 98/10.
It is impossibill to break the Scottis in battell as they stand, mor nor to break ane stane wall