randle-tree

There are some no bad folk amang the gipsies too, to be sic a gang, ’ added Dandie; ‘if ever I see that auld randle-tree of a wife again, I’ll gie her something to buy tobacco—I have a great notion she meant me very fair after a’.

Chapter XXVI 1917

Here, you bitter old randle-tree, there are three thirteens for you; and if you will go down to the kitchen with the cook, he will give you a regular skinful. '

Willy Reilly The Works of William Carleton, Volume One William Carleton 1831

Dandie; 'if ever I see that auld randle-tree of a wife again, I

Guy Mannering, Or, the Astrologer — Complete Walter Scott 1801

Dandie; 'if ever I see that auld randle-tree of a wife again, I'll gie her something to buy tobacco.

Guy Mannering, Or, the Astrologer — Volume 01 Walter Scott 1801

There are some no bad folk amang the gipsies too, to be sic a gang, 'added Dandie;' if ever I see that auld randle-tree of a wife again, I 'll gie her something to buy tobacco.

Guy Mannering — Complete Walter Scott 1801

There are some no bad folk amang the gipsies too, to be sic a gang,’ added Dandie; ‘if ever I see that auld randle-tree of a wife again, I ‘ll gie her something to buy tobacco.

Guy Mannering 1815