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Plantins, small trees intended for planting.
Raiff, reave, carry off.
Resting, owing arrears of rent.
Rey, rye; heavier than oats, and therefore used for adulterating
the ‘ ferm.’
Rot tres, fallen and decaying trees.
Rugeing, tearing.
Sepleines, saplings.
Sess, same as cess.
Shilling, grain freed from the husk.
Stryk oxin, yoke oxen together in a plough, in token of ‘good
neighbourhood ’ between their owners. The word ‘ strike ’
used in the same sense as in the phrase ‘strike hands.’
Sucken, territory bound to grind corn and pay multure exclusively
at a certain mill.
Syss, assise, jury.
Sysseres, jurymen.
Tach (taieth), and ewell (awell), corn; corn off field which had
had crops taken off it in two successive years, after manuring.
Taw, tumble about.
Tirr a house, strip the roof off it.
Tost, torment.
Tulyeing, scuffling.
Unlaw, onlei, a fine.
Wands, long shoots of willow.
Weet or Bloodwit, fine for shedding blood.

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