Sc. Obs. Also 4 longart, 7 lonckart. [app. a. Gael. longphort.] A temporary cottage or hut; a ‘shieling.’ ? Sc. or dial.
c. 1375. Sc. Leg. Saints, xix. (Cristofore), 269. Ore he ȝed his longart to.
1618. J. Taylor (Water P.), Pennyles Pilgr., F. There were small cottages built on purpose to lodge in, which they call Lonquhards.
1632. in 4th Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm., I. (1874), 533/2. [Vassals] sall caus big and put up our lonckartis for the hunting.
1771. Pennant, Tour Scotl. in 1769 (1790), 125. They lived in temporary cottages called Lonquhards.
