Sc. Forms: 5 fut(e)fell, 6 futfaill, -vale, fytwale, 7, 9 fitfeal. [app. f. FOOT sb. + FELL.] The fell or skin of a lamb that has died soon after it was dropped (Jam.). Also foolfell skin.
1452. Jas. II., Let. in Chart. Aberd. (1890), 25. The skins underwritten, commonly called skorlings, skaldings, futefell, [etc.].
1495. in Halyburtons Ledger (1867), 90. Item out off the samyn sek 125 futfell.
1535. Aberd. Reg., V. 15 (Jam.). Ane dossund of futfaill sufficient stuf. Ibid. Vij. dossund of futfaill skynnis.
1592. Sc. Acts Jas. VI., § 80. Skynnis underwrittin, callit in the vulgar toung Scorlingis, scaldingis, futefaillis, lentrevare.
1670. Rates (Jam.). Fitfeals and scadlings.