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Trabuschet(t, -at(t, n. Also: trabu(i)sschet(t, trabushet(t, trabusset, trebuschet(t. [ME and e.m.E. trepeiette (14th c.), tribochet (a1400-50), treybochet (c1400), trebuchet (c1640), OF trebuchet, trabuchet, med. L. trebuchettum.] A (small) set of scales. 1550 Reg. Great S. 105/1.
Par de lie trabuschettis 15 sol. 1562 Edinb. B. Deeds 63a.
Greit wechtis small ballancis trabusset 1573 Edinb. Test. II 334b.
Ane pair trabuisschettis price ij s. 1576 Edinb. Test. IV 105b.
Ane cretar with ane pair of trabuschettis within the same 1593 Edinb. Test. XXV 189b.
Thrie pair of trabusschetis at xiij s. greit 1607 Edinb. Test. XLIII 154a.
Aucht paire of trabuschattis at xxvj s. viij d. the paire … xv paire of the small sort of trebuschettis at xiij s. iiij d. the paire 1624 Edinb. Test. LII 256a.
Sex paire of goldin wechtis of trabuschettis 1638 Justiciary Cases II 365.
Steilling and awaytaking … fourscoir rex dollouris, ten quarteris of Lundoun claithe, and ane pair of trabusschettis 1658 Brechin Test. VI 163a.
Ane hand baike with ane pair of trabushettis
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