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Quotation dates: 1513
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Stelit, -yt, ppl. adj. [ME and e.m.E. istelet (a1225), stelde (c1350), stelyd (? a1400), steeled (Shakespeare); Stele n.] Made of steel or furnished with a covering, edge or point of steel. — 1513 Doug. vii x 78.
All instrumentis of pleuch graith, irnyt or stelit As cultyris, sokkis, and the somys gret 1513 Doug. x iv 10.
Prynce Massycus cummys … Into hys barge Tygrys, with stelyt snowt 1513 Doug. x iv 138.
Schippys … With stelyt stevynnys and bowand bylge of tre 1513 Doug. x xiv 141.
This Troiane prynce … Intil hys stalwart stelyt scheild stikand owt Lyke a hair wod the dartis bair abowt 1513 Doug. xi iii 81.
Dyntis rude of the scharp stelyt ax 1513 Doug. xi xiii 20.
The weil stelit and braid billit ax 1513 Doug. xi xiv 55.
And fra his speris poynt of brak he than the stelit hed
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