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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
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Quotation dates: 1508-1509
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Curtald, n. [OF. curtald, later courtauld, -aud. In e.m.E. as courtault (1530), etc.] A short-barrelled cannon. — a 1509 Ramsay Let. to Hen. VII in Pinkerton Hist. II. 440 (Jam. (1825) s.v. Curtald).
The provision of ordinance [in Edinburgh castle] … is bot lettill, that is to say ij great curtaldis, that war send out of France [etc.]
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