1 a partner, neighbour, one part of a matching pair: Look at that bonnie shoe. It’s just your size, but I burned the marrow o it. 16-.
2 a friend, companion la15-. etymology: Scots ‘another identical specimen, a counterpart; an exact equivalent; the second of a pair’; sense 2 only collected by EMcC/PS; attested by BS in TDITA and BW