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Quotation dates: 1500-1697
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Padill, Paidill, n.1 Also: paidd-; ped-, pedd-, peadand -le, -ell. [e.m.E. and ME. padell (1407), paddle (1560) a small spade-like implement with a long handle, of unknown ulterior origin. Cf. Patil(l n.] A tool for scraping earth, mud, etc. from a hard surface.(a) 1556–7 Edinb. Old Acc. II. 69.
Ane greit irne padill to padill the kirk 1571–2 Canongate Ct. Bk. 355. 1595 Edinb. D. Guild Acc. 566.
For scherping of the padill off the kirk 1611 Reg. Privy C. IX. 241.
With ane grite plot staulff or padill in his hand haveing a shairp broad irne on the end thairof 1635 Cochran-Patrick Coinage II. 47.
In the forging hous … ane yrne padill 1649 Glasg. Univ. Mun. III. 536.
Padle 1697 Foulis Acc. Bk. 216.(b) 1597–8 Household Bks. Jas. VI 28 Feb.
To … [the] dichter of the palace for … ane paidle, ane graip [etc.] 1633 Master of Works Accounts (ed.) II. 344.
Ane irone paidill for paidleing the turnepykes and housis 1649 Edinburgh Testaments LXIV. 271 b.
Paidell 1691 Proceedings of Society of Antiquaries LIII. 61.
Ane ruber paidle(c) 1644 Edinb. Univ. MS. 49.
To make clean the stairs from dirt and dust with a pedle and a besome 1663–6 Household Bks. Archb. Sharp MS. 36.
Pedillis … peddillis 1668 Edinburgh Testaments LXXIII. 175.
Ane flesh cruik and pedle(d) 1645 Tulliallan Coal Wks. 110.
For 3 peadills
b. A plough-staff. 15.. Lord Fergus' Gaist 33.
Ane pluche ane paiddill [etc.] a1651 Calderwood VII. 506 (see Patill n.).
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