Sc. local. [Perh. a. or cogn. w. Du. stut (see etym. note s.v. STUD sb.1); perh. a dial. var. of STUD sb.1]. A prop.
1559. Extracts Aberd. Reg. (1844), I. 325. Sum remeid to wphald the ruff of the northt yll with propis and stuttis [printed scuttis] for this wyntir sessoun, quhill fair wedder cum, to mend the samen.
1808. Jamieson, Stut, a prop, a support.
