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slang1
noun a park or field 20-.
verb put animals into a field; set to graze: Slang the gry. [Put the horse into the field.] 20- South West, Borders. etymology: borrowed from English dialect slang, ‘a strip of grazing-ground, of obscure origin’; or perhaps connected to Middle Low German slange ‘serpent’; also attested by Galloway Tinkler-Gypsies; also collected by Rev John Baird and Joseph F G S Lucas from Kirk Yetholm Gypsies
slang2 noun a licence 19-.
‣ big slang a licence for a cart 20.
‣ wee slang a licence for a pedlar 20. etymology: origin obscure; perhaps Cant or Romany; big slang and wee slang attested by Galloway Tinkler-Gypsies; collected by EMcC/PS; attested by BS in TDITA note:

Canadian Paul Pope (2013) attests the form slang which he defines as ‘a pedlar’s licence’.