▪ I. blad, n.1 Sc.
[f. blad v.]
A firm flat blow.
| a 1715 Jacobite Relics II. 139 (Jam.) They lend sic hard and heavy blads, Our Whigs nae mair can craw, man. 1789 D. Davidson Seasons 79 (Jam.) Wha gied them mony a donsy blaad..that day. |
▪ II. blad, n.2 Chiefly Sc.
(blad)
Also blaud.
[Possibly the same as prec., or at least from blad v.: thus there is also dad vb. to beat, thump, and dad a large piece, a ‘thumping’ piece.]
1. A fragment, portion, piece, bit, or lump.
| c 1527 Stewart Soutars Answ. in Evergreen I. 121 Grit blads and bitts thou staw [= stole] full oft. 1574 J. Melvill Autobiog. (1842) 33 He [John Knox] was lyk to ding that pulpit in blads. 1573 in Thomson Invent. 187 (Jam.) Take the fyve bladdis of tapestrie. 1785 Burns 2nd Ep. Lapraik iv, I'll write, and that a hearty blaud, This vera night. 1824 Scott Redgauntlet xi, Dougal would hear nothing but a blaud of Davie Lindsay. 1842 Blackw. Mag. LI. 181 Dabs of gum, blads of orange, and lumps of putty. |
2. a. A portfolio (Jamieson, 1808).
| 1813 E. Picken Poems II. 132 He staps in his warks in his pouch in a blink, Flang by a' his warklooms, his blaud an' his ink. |
b. A blotting-pad or writing-pad.
| 1837 Tait's Mag. IV. 103/2 As if I were merely amusing myself with my pen on my blad. 1923 G. Watson Roxb. Word-bk. 58 Blad, a blotting pad. |
c. [cf. Sw., Du. blad leaf.] In non-dial. use: see quots.
| 1933 Partridge Slang Today & Yesterday iii. iii. 181 Blad..is applied to a sheaf of specimen pages or to other ‘illustrative matter’ liked by the bookseller, especially the bookseller resident abroad. 1960 G. A. Glaister Gloss. of Bk. 28 Blad, a sample of a book, made up for the publisher's traveller to show to the trade. It usually consists of the first thirty-two pages, including prelims, bound up in the same cloth as the finished book. |
▪ III. blad, v. Sc.
Also 8 blaud.
[prob. onomatopœic.]
trans. To deal a blow to, to slap heavily.
| 1524 Vision xiv. in Evergreen I. 220 Theyil jade hir and blad hir Untill scho brak hir Tether. |
| 1786 Burns Ordination ii, He's the boy will blaud her! 1837 R. Nicoll Poems 110, I like the healthfu' gale That blads fu' kindly there. |
Hence ˈbladding (also blauding), ppl. a.
| 1785 Burns Ep. J. M. Math i, The shearers cowr To shun the bitter blaudin' show'r. |