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.

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1452.  Jas. II., Let. in Chart. Aberd. (1890), 25. The skins underwritten, commonly called skorlings, skaldings, futefell, [etc.].

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1495.  in Halyburton’s Ledger (1867), 90. Item out off the samyn sek 125 futfell.

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1535.  Aberd. Reg., V. 15 (Jam.). Ane dossund of futfaill sufficient stuf. Ibid. Vij. dossund of futfaill skynnis.

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1592.  Sc. Acts Jas. VI., § 80. Skynnis underwrittin, callit in the vulgar toung Scorlingis, scaldingis, futefaillis, lentrevare.

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1670.  Rates (Jam.). Fitfeals and scadlings.

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