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▪ I. † water-mail1 Sc. Obs.
[mail n.2]
A rent charged upon a piece of water.
1455Sc. Acts Jas. II (1814) II. 42/2 Þe lordschippe of Abernethy with þe watter malys of Inuerness. 1488Reg. Mag. Sig. Scot. 381/1 Dicto duci hereditarie pertinentem de magnis custumis et aquarum firmis nuncupatis le Water Malez burgi de Aberdene. 1500Exch. Rolls Scot. XI. 266 note, The yerlie pensioun gevin to hir of the custumez and water malis of oure said burrowis. c1550Registr. Aberdon. (Maitland Club) II. 212 [Dedit] xx s. de custumis Abirdonensibus videlicet de ly vatir malis.
▪ II. † water-mail2 Sc. Obs.
[The second element is obscure; possibly the word may be an incorrect Sc. reading of water-mole.]
Some kind of fur. Also attrib.
1489Acc. Ld. High Treas. Scot. I. 136 Item, for water⁓mayllis to lyne the saim gowne. 1512Ibid. IV. 215 Item, put in ane stomok of the Quenis of blak satin, sex wattermaill skynnis. 1517Caldwell Papers (Maitl. Club) I. 57 Ane goun of tanny, lynit with wattermalis. |