▪ I. † ˈscudler Sc. Obs.
Also 5 scudler, 6 scudlar, skuddiller.
[App. a. early OF. *escudeler (later escuelier), f. *escudele (later escuele, mod.F. écuelle) dish. Cf. squiller.]
A scullion.
| c 1470 Henry Wallace v. 1027 In the kyching scudleris lang tyme had beyne. 1536 Bellenden Cron. Scot. (1821) I. 179 He commandit al scudlaris..to be exilit within ane certane day. 1595 Duncan App. Etym. (E.D.S.), Lixa, a scullion, or scudler; calo. 1596 Dalrymple tr. Leslie's Hist. Scot. I. 196 The skuddilleris and kitchine boyes, and a few suddartis..invade the Ennimies. 1638 New Litany in Bk. Sc. Pasquils (1868) 57 From horsruber, scudler, scold and hagge, Tinker, treulerd, slouene and sluit. |
▪ II. scudler
variant of scuddaler.