- denoting a street or pavement laid with cobble-stones (rather than flagstones or plainstanes), this word is recorded in Scots sources from the fifteenth century onwards. In Old Scots, causeys were the scenes of all manner of activities. The Records of Elgin (1599) report that a certain Johne Stewart was accused of
playing at the bowallis [bowls] on the calsaye the tyme of the evenyng prayeris
and in the late sixteenth-century Memorials of Transactions in Scotland, there is an account of an incident in Edinburgh during which bulletis rebowndis of [off] the calsey, injuring Lord Fleming. Less dramatically, the Register of the Privy Council of Scotland (1628) notes the more practical information that William Parke... built upon the rivers Cader and Coven eache of thame a bridge with calseyes.