pyat
Scots
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editpyat (plural pyats)
- A magpie.
- 1886 May 1 – July 31, Robert Louis Stevenson, “The Death of the Red Fox”, in Kidnapped, being Memoirs of the Adventures of David Balfour in the Year 1751: […], London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 1886, →OCLC, page 161:
- [T]here's many a man would think this more of a warning than two pyats.
References
edit- “pyot” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.