a. Now Sc. Forms: (5 stanry), 6 Sc. stanerie, (stendirrie), 8– stannery. [f. stanner, STANNERS + -Y.] = STONY a.
c. 1440. Pallad. on Husb., III. 708. A stanry pere [L. lapidosi generis pyra] is seyd to chaunge his mete In esy lond ygraffed yr he be.
1501. Douglas, Pal. Hon., II. xlii. The beriall stremis rinnand ouir stanerie greis Made sober noyis.
1579. Reg. Privy Council Scot., III. 129. The ground … is sandy and stanerie.
1795. Statist. Acc. Scot., XV. 316. One meets with boggy, stannery, croft, and clay ground, almost in every farm.
1805. State, Leslie of Powis, etc. 109 (Jam.). The said dike … lies upon a stannery and sandy bed.
fig. 1563. Winȝet, Wks., II. 54. Ar thai ony found … of sa stanerie stubburnes, quha suld not submit thame selfis to sa gret plentuousnes of ihir heuinlie wordis.
1596. Dalrymple, trans. Leslie’s Hist. Scot., I. 261. Perceiueng in how dangerous ane state now the Realme was, how Scopulous, stendirrie, or stanie, was the stedd, quhairon thay than stude.
