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Plaiding, Plading, Plyding, Pladding, n. Also: plaideinge and plaid(d)-, playd-, plad(e)-, plyde-, plead-, pleid-, pleyd-, pled(d)ing, -in(e, -yne, -en(e, -ein. [Plaid n.; only Sc., as also in the mod. dial. Cf. Sarking n.]

The kind of cloth from which plaids were made (cf. Plaid n. 2).With various defining words (see the list for Plaid n. 1), qq.v. for definitions and further examples.Chiefly coll. sing., also in plur. form, with either coll. or plur. sense.sing. (a) 1569–70 Canongate Ct. Bk. 158.
The litting of certane woll plaiding and wirsettis grene and blew 1576 Brechin Test. I. i b.
xviii dubbill ellis of plaidding 1577–95 Skene Celtic Scotl. III. 429.
The Ile of Lewis … payis yeirlie … ane great quantitie of fisches, pultrie and quhyte plaiding by thair cuidichies 1587 Treas. Acc. MS. 116.
Tua doubill eln plaidene ? 1605 Glasgow Trades House 546.
Playding 1606 Conv. Burghs II. 214.
Plaiding 1610 Brechin Test. II. 58 b.
Fyue wyllicotis of plaideinge 1611 Ib. 150 b.
Doubling plaiddin 1628 Dumbarton B. Rec. 25.
Fyne waulked playdin 1633 Aberd. Sheriff Ct. II. 370.
Ane wob of plaiding conteining threttie six elnis of lenth 1637 Banff Ann. I. 80.
Courtein plaiding 1653 Soc. Ant. XXIII. 302.
Two coverlids seud lynd with plaiding c 1660 Gordon's Aberd. 19.
Course woolling cloath callit playding, linning cloath [etc.] 1669 Aberd. B. Rec. IV. 256.
As much plaiding as will furnish coatis to the tounes militia company 1673 Montgomery Mem. 333.
Half an ell of plaiden for vnderstockins 1692 Misc. B. Rec. 79.
Galloway plaiden(b) 1550 Elgin Rec. I. 106.
Ane wob … of xxviii elnis of quhit plading 1566 Hay Fleming Q. Mary 499.
Fyftein elne of blew plading for to mak ane cannabie to the rokaris 1566 Facs. Nat. MSS. III. li.
Pladine 1589-1600 Skipper's Acc. (Morton) 49 a.
Ane paket plading with my awne marke 1592 Reg. Privy C. V. 10.
[Giving] certane elnis of plading … for his saidis fewmailles 1597 Crim. Trials II. 25.
Scho … hakkit a hoill with ane knyffe and tuke out a lytillpolk of blak plading 1597 Edinb. Test. XXX. 194 b.
Pladeine 1599 Brown Paisley I. 179.
Ane pair of briks of brown plading 1605 Tailor's Acc. Bk. A. 37 b.
Blak plading to bais the hair vpoun of thir hoisis 1625 Edinb. Test. LIII. 136.
Thrie peices pladeing 1632 Cullen B. Ct. 14 Sept.
To pay to … his serwand for hir fie xl s. money ten quarters of hardyn and ane eln of plading 1687 Kirkcudbr. Test. (Reg. H.) 7 Oct.
[Owing] ane ell of plading of old fie 1697 Elgin Rec. II. 320.
Pladine(c) 1647 Caldwell P. I. 99.
For twa elnes plyding to lyne his breicks 1663 Stirling Common Good 13.
Six elnes plyding to lyne the cloaths 1663 Reg. Privy C. 3 Ser. I. 407.
The acts of parliament and constant practique of mercatts appointing plyding to be measured of the ground 1674 Rothesay B. Rec. 323.
Plydeing 1675 Kirkintilloch B. Ct. 70.
Wakit litit plydeine 1678 Argyll Justic. Rec. I. 89.
Eight or nyne elne of gray cloath and eight elne of new plydeing 1690 Glasgow Maltmen 68.
Three ells of plyding to be hose(d) 1643 Sc. N. & Q. XII. 60.
To mak his repentance … for selling of pleading 1679 Argyll Justic. Rec. 112.
Seven elns of walked pleadine 1680 Stirling Common Good 153.
8 elnes of small pleading at 9 s. per elne(e) 1644 Edinb. Test. LXI. 45 b.
xii elnes pleyding ii merks the elne c 1690 Weaver's Acc. Bk.
[12 s.] for pleiding(f) 1566 Inverness Rec. I. lxxi.
Pledding and small skynnis and utheris small wayoures 1573 Ib. 226.
[He] thifteouslie stawe … xvi dowbill elnis of pledding Ib. 227.
Pleddin 1595 Edinb. Test. XXVIII. 9 b.
Tua elneis of quhyt doubill pledding at xv s. the elne 1597 Wedderburn Compt Bk. 110.
I have ventorit … xxv peces on pledding etc. to Flanderis 1645 Sc. Hist. Rev. XXX. 148.
Ane upmost wilicot of small pleding 1648 Aberd. Council Lett. III. 106.
At this tyme when the pryces of pledding are beginning to fall 1650 Misc. 3rd Spald. C. II. 202.
To by pleding gray cloth and shone to the boyes 1675 Dumfr. & Galloway Soc. 3 Ser. XXXVIII. 176.
496 ells of pledding for 31 bedds 1688 Reg. Privy C. 3 Ser. XIII. 247.
With a peice rau pledden(g) 1548 Treas. Acc. IX. 223.
Fyve elnis pladding to be hir blankettis 1598 Glasgow Weavers 49.
That nane of thair craft work ane elne of pladdein better chap nor aucht penneis the roundest elne 1672 Dumfr. & Galloway Soc. 3 Ser. XXXVI. 39.
300 ells pladdingplur. 1561–2 Treas. Acc. XI. 107.
For [5¾] elnis … of quhite pladingis to be lyneing 1623 Aberd. Council Lett. I. 210.
Our plaidingis cairseyis and seyis 1641 Stirling Chart. 155.
Linte cannabi et lie plaidingis 1647 Falkirk Baron Ct. 29 Aug.
For ane elle of plydingis 16.. Macfarlane's Geog. Coll. III. 86.
They export … meal, bear, plaidins, some oyl

b. Attrib. and comb.With blankat, cloath (Clath(e n. 1), cote, courting (courtain), hose, mat, robe, slevis, wastecote, wylliecote, web (wob), ȝarne; claytht; elwand, trade.(1) 1563–4 Prot. Bk. T. Johnson 138.
Tua pair of plading doubill blankattis 1575 Dumfries B. Ct. 25 Oct. 1608 Edinb. Test. XLIV. 285 b. 1614 Ib. XLVIII. 3. 1632 Inv. Newark 6 a.
Item of the best sort of plaiding blankitis. Item of midlikin sort of plading blankitis — 16.. Nat. Lib. MS. 22.2.11, 4th last p.
Strain it through a plading cloath — 1589-1600 Skipper's Acc. (Morton) 60 a.
For ane pleding cote iii marke 1672 Sheriffhall Coal Accompt 16 Nov.
For 2 pleden coattis — 1580 Coll. Aberd. & B. 391.
Twa pair of grein plaiding courtingis 1611 McKay Kilmarnock 308.
Pladine courtainis 1614 Edinb. Test. XLVIII. 3 b.
Ane stand of greine plaiding cowrtingis — 1630 Glasgow Trades House 146.
For lyning thereto and ane pair of plading hois 1631 Edinb. Test. LV. 43. 1679 Hawick Mem. 21.
Stealing of ane pair of plaiding hose — 1645 Edinb. Test. LXI. 132 b.
Ane plaiding matt estimat to iii lib. vi s. viii d. — 1665 Lauder Jrnl. 10.
The … Carthusians … go in a long white playding robe — 1587 Edinb. Test. XVIII. 208.
Ane quhyt vyliecoitt … & ane pair of plaidin sleiffis — 1634 Spottiswoode Misc. II. 66.
A white plaidine wastecoat — 1569 Crail B. Ct. 14 June.
Ane plaidyne welycote vi s. viii d. 1589 St. Andrews B. Ct. 19 Sept.
Twa pleyding vylicottis 1629 Dumfries Test. I a. 164.
Ane plaidding wyllie cote 1649 Edinb. Test. LXIV. 148.
Ane quhytt plaidding waillicot — 1657 Aberd. Eccl. Rec. 143.
Accusit for drying of ane plaidene wob … in tyme of sermone c 1680 Coll. Aberd. & B. 96.
Making of plaiden webs which the Aberdeen merchants carry over sea 1683 Elgin Rec. I. 331. — 1576 Edinb. Test. IV. 278.
Ane stane & ane quarter wecht of plading ȝarne price five merkis 1595 Glenorchy P. MS. (Reg. H.) 89.
xiii clewis of plading ȝarne 1632 Aberd. Council Lett. I. 346.
Anent the reformation of the plaiding yarne(2) 1625 Brechin Test. IV. 198.
Fourtie four elnis dublinge plaiddin claytht 1663 Reg. Privy C. 3 Ser. I. 407.
Four elnes more of the said plyding cloath(3) 1643–4 Misc. Spald. C. V. 107.
For ane new stamp to the playding elvandis — 1648 Aberd. Council Lett. III. 107.
It will … bring the pledding trade to as great a decay