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Quotation dates: 1552-1661
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(Tabill burd,) Tabel burd, Taf(f)ill burd, n. Also: table-, taffell-, tafle-, taiffill-, -ell-, taphill-, tailfle- and -buird, -burde, -bwird, -boord, -bord. [e.m.E. tabyll burde (1483), tablebourd (1540), table-bord (1603).] (A board used as) a table.(a) 1568 Edinburgh Testaments I 200.
Ane burd ane langsadill ane furme and ane small tabelburd 1573 Edgar Old Church Life II 255.
[They] overthrew and brake down their table boords, whereupon the blessed sacrament was ministered 1612 Bk. Rates (Halyb.) 290.
Table boordes 1661 Dumfries Kirk S. 4 April.
The sessione desyers bailie Coupland to make a table boord for the members of the synond [sic. in transcr.] & presbyterie to sit at(b) 1552 Dundee B. Ct. II 171b (13 July).
Ane girdill ane baikbreid ane forme & ane tafill bord 1567 Kirkcaldy B. Rec. App. 314.
Ane taphill burd 1568 Edinburgh Testaments I 148b.
Ane litill taffill burd 1576 Glasgow B. Rec. (MC) 54.
Taffill burde 1583 St. A. Test. II 23.
Tafill bwird 1592 Edinburgh Testaments XXIV 124a.
Taffill buird 1596 Fraser P. 229.
Ane lytill taiffell [pr. taissell buird] buird 1608 Edinburgh Testaments XLIV 283b.
Ane faldind taffill buird of wanescot 1610 Edinburgh Testaments XLVI 201a.
Ane meit burd ane taiffill burd and ane furme of fir 1613 Edinburgh Testaments XLVII 270b.
Ane taiffill buird price xviij s. 1618 Glasg. Univ. Mun. III 567.
Ane taffill [pr. laffill] buird 1623 Orkney & Shetl. Test. I 93a.
Ane tailfle buird of aik a1639 Spotsw. Hist. (1655) 406.
Every chair had a taffell boord [pr. tassell boord] covered with fine velvet 1654 Edinburgh Testaments LXVIII 16a.
Tua tafle boords
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