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First published 1990 (DOST Vol. VII).
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Quotation dates: 1600-1699
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(Rede-waimb,) Red-waimb, n. ? Also altered variants: reedwyn, ridvyme. [Red(e adj. and Rid adj. Only Sc.; also in the later dial. Cf. Rede-trout n.] The char. — 1637 Breadalbane Lett. No. 709.
Ife convenientlie thair can be any freische ridvymes or pyiks … pleas ȝow to send me sume c1641–54 J. Gordon in Macfarlane's Geog. Coll. II 607.
In this loch [sc. Loch Muy] are founde trowts called reedwyns taken only betwix Michelmess and Hallowmess 1649 Macfarlane's Geog. Coll. III 140.
In the water betwixt the Lochs of the Lowes, there is a sort of fish taken something more than a herring called redwaimbs 16.. Ib. 144.
[In St. Mary's Loch] a kind of fishes, called by the countrey people red waimbs from the bloud red colour of their belly
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