A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
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Ball-cod, Ba(w)-cod, n. [Ball n.1 3. Cod n.] The scrotum.a1500 Henr. III. 151/50.
This vntment is rycht ganand … in strang wesche to steip For to bath ȝour ba cod 1595 Edinb. B. Rec. V. 137.
That sort of rymbursin quha hes thair entrellis fallin in thair baw-cod 1601 Reg. Privy C. VI. 317.
Johne Middlemest … [shot him] in at the thie throw his ball cod 1621 Crim. Trials III. 498.
Setting thair feit betuix his leggis vpone his ball-cod
