Brewer's: Ochiltree

(Edie). A gaberlunzie man or blue-coat beggar, in Sir Walter Scott's Antiquary. The original of this bedesman was Andrew Gemmelles.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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