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† throuch, through Sc. Obs.|θrʌx|
Also 6 thrugh, throch, throuche.
[History and etymology unknown.
All the forms cited occur also as spellings of through n.1, but it is difficult to see any connexion with that word, unless it be that both are rectangular and flat.]
A sheet (of paper).
1502Acc. Ld. High Treas. Scot. II. 343 For xxj thrugh of ymagery to be patrownis to the broudstar,..xxj s. 1546Ibid. VIII. 450 For xij throuchis of Lumbart paper to be patronis for chargeouris of gunnis,..ij s. 1556–7Edinburgh Burgh Rec. 9 Jan., To tak the inuentar of the habilite of all personis and the quantite of thair substance, and wryting the samyn, quhilk was xxviij throch of paper. 1572Satir. Poems Reform. xxxiii. Ded. 5 To quhome can I this lytill throuch propyne, Bot vnto ane of excellent ingyne? a1578Lindesay (Pitscottie) Chron. Scot. (S.T.S.) I. 407 The Cardinal held ane throch of paper to the king and causit him wreit his handwreit thairon. 1590in Acts of Sederunt (1790) 18 That all letteris that conteinis mair nor ane throuche of paper, that everie battering, and end of the throuche, sall be subscrivit be him. 1618Rec. Elgin (New Spald. Cl.) I. 237 For writin of half ane through of paper. |