meal-market

Updated: May 4, 2025

All the forenoon, as the wives that went to the meal-market, came back railing with toom pocks and basins, it might have been foretold that the farmers would have to abate their extortion, or that something would come o't before night.

John Galt - The Provost

I had no mind, by a second sudden appearance, to confirm the report that Advocate Fairford was 'gaen daft, which had probably spread from Campbell's Close-foot to the Meal-market Stairs; and so slunk back within my own hole again.

Sir Walter Scott - Redgauntlet