A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 2000 (DOST Vol. VIII).
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Quotation dates: 1539-1589, 1700
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S(c)hank, v. [f. S(c)hank,n.] tr. a. To furnish (hose) with stockings. b. To provide with legs. c. To furnish (a coal-mine) with a shaft. —a. 1539 Treasurer's Accounts VII 263.
The hois of crammessy velvet schankit with quhyte stemmyng 1541 Ib. 447.
Quhite velvet to be stokkis to ane pair of hois, schankit with quhite stemmyng —b. 1584-9 Maxwall Commonpl. Bk. fol. 20a.
Thow is nebbit lyk ane quhaipe & schankit lyk a ka —c. 1700 Paterson Ayr & Wigton I 79.
To sett down and shank a coall heugh on the toun lands
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