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† mers Sc. Obs.
Also 6 merse.
[a. MDu. merse (mod.Du. mars) ‘top’ of a mast, literally ‘basket’.]
A round-top surrounding the lower masthead. Also attrib. in mers clothes, streamers and hangings suspended from the ‘mers’.
1494Acc. Ld. High Treas. Scot. (1877) I. 253 Item for ane gret mast, ane ra, ane swken, a pygy mast; and thir rais and the takling with ane mers,..and for ane pomp and other small graith, x li. 1504–6Ibid. (1901) III. 89 Item xxvj elne carsay blew, rede, quhit and ȝallow to be ij mers clathis to the schip. 1505–6Ibid. 183 Item..to the man that maid the mers of the schip, in drinksilvir xiiijs. 1506Ibid. 189 Item..to Alexander Chamir, payntour, quhilk payntit the mers of the Kingis schip x Franch crounis. 1508Dunbar Gold. Targe 52 A saill, als quhite as blossum vpon spray, Wyth merse of gold, brycht as the stern of day. |