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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
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Cottane, Cotten, Cotting, n. Also: cotane, coting; coittane, -en(e, -ing. [e.m.E. cotten (16th c.), freq. variant of cotton. The forms in -ing are similar to birding, courting, garding, etc.]

1. = Cotoun 1.(a) 1583 Edinb. Test. XIII. 44.
xix elnis … of blak coitting 1626 Ib. LIII. 344 b.
i^c ij ellis of cotting at xxx s. the elne 1635 Ib. LVII. 56.
Fourtie four ellis of Ȝorkshyre cotting(b) 1608 Tailor's Acc. Bk. 68 b.
v elis [= 5 ells] … argenti gray coitten 1618 Edinb. Test. L. 163.
Tuentie elne remanes of cotten at tuentie sex schillingis aucht pennyis the elne 1628 Ib. LIV. 235.
Nynteine elnes gray coittene at xx s. the elne(c) 1618 Edinb. Test. L. 163.
Threttie ane elne of russet cottane 1672 Ib. LXXIV. 203 b.
1^c and ane halfe pund weight of cottane for candellweakes

2. Attrib. with freis, poynt, sk(e)yn, spangarie, ȝairne.(a) 1576 Edinb. Test. IV. 230.
Sex coitting skynnis, price of the pece vj s. 1584 Elgin Rec. I. 175.
Thre clowis of cotting ȝairne 1595 Edinb. Test. XXVIII. 9 b.
xviij elneis … of blak coting freis 1636 Ib. LVIII. 13 b.
Thrie dussone of cotting poyntes 1642 Ib. 194.
Fower scoir ellis of gray cotting freis at twa merkis the ell(b, c) 1605 Tailor's Acc. Bk. 37 b.
Half ane quarter of coittane freis to lyne ȝour muttones with 1636 Edinb. Test. LVIII. 46.
Twa peiss of coittene freis 1638 Bk. Pasquils 56.
Poynts tangling heir, poynts tangling there, And cotane spangaries eury quher