† ˈgamond Sc. Obs.
Forms: 6 gamount, galmound, -mand, gawmound.
[from earlier gambat = F. gambade; see the forms under gambol n. The form may be due to some association with gamount = gammon n.1]
A gambol, or leaping movement in dancing.
| 1500–20 Dunbar Poems xxvi. 11 He bad gallandis ga graith a gyiss, And kast vp gamountis [M. gambauldis, R. galmandis] in the skyis, That last came out of France. 1535 Lyndesay Satyre 452 Now hay! for ioy and mirth I dance. Tak thair ane gay gamond of France. a 1572 Knox Hist. Ref. Wks. 1846 I. 43 He lapp up mearely upoun the scaffold, and, casting a gawmound, said, ‘Whair ar the rest of the playaris?’ a 1591 Adamson in R. Ford Harp Perthsh. (1893) 4 Ay when I hit the mark I cast a gamound. |
Hence † ˈgamonding vbl. n.
| 1549 Compl. Scot. vi. 66 It vas ane celest recreation to beheld ther lycht lopene, galmonding [orig. ed. galmouding], stendling bakuart and forduart. |