Etymology: Compare the Fife and Perthshire place-name Gask, of unknown origin and meaning.
Scottish. Obsolete. rare.
(See quot. c1480; possibly a mistranslation.)
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c1480 (a1400) St. Juliana 131 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) II. 428 Nocht-þane, scho drev hym to þe tone, & in a depe gausk [L. latrinam] kist hym done, þat ves a ful foule pyt, rycht vgly & ful ves It.
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