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First published 2002 (DOST Vol. XI).
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Tressel(l, Traissil, n. Also: tresle, treasle, traisle. [ME and e.m.E. trestel(e (13 … ), trostyle (Prompt. Parv.), tryselle (1543), tressell (1572), OF trestel.] a. = Trest n. 1. b. = Trest n. 2.a. 1571 Misc. Spald. C. II 79.
xxxii formis … ij ss.; xxxii treslis … xii d. 1572 Elgin Rec. I 135.
Ane metbuird with the treslis and furmis thairof 1595–6 Sc. Hist. Rev. X 303.
Item the aill seller … tua deills upone treasles 1624 Edinb. B. Rec. VI 259.
Ane gritt new mand [pr. maud] for wooll, ane flek, ane tressell to itb. 1532–3 Acta Conc. Publ. Aff. 395.
Artalȝerie … fourti hagbutis, fourti tressellis, fourti chargeouris 1545 Treas. Acc. VIII 380.
For his laubouris in monting of the said artalȝe, making of treslis [etc.](b) 1545 Treas. Acc. VIII 392.
Past … [to the] assege of Wark, vij pavilliouns and to cary thame witht thair traislis xviij hors 1545 Treas. Acc. VIII 418.
Bullattis, extreis, traissilis, quhelis, … and other necessaris for the greit artalȝe 1548 Treas. Acc. IX 199.
Expensis debursit upoun our soverane ladyis monitioun … For carage of the feissis and traislis furtht of Leith to the castell