A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1951 (DOST Vol. II).
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Quotation dates: 1399-1400, 1513, 1585-1586, 1652
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Grape, Grap(p-), n.1 [ME. grape (c 1315), pl. grapis, grapus, OF. grape, grappe.] pl. Grapes. — a1400 Legends of the Saints xlvii. 166.
[They] pressit hir, to do hir pyne, As men dois grappis of the wyne 1513 Doug. xii. Prol. 100.
The wyne grapis ȝyng, Endlang the treilȝeis a1586 Lindsay MS. 38 b.
Grappes of raisin hes rycht grit vertew in nobless 1652 Nicoll Diary 102.
Rype wyneberries and graps
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