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A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)

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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.

Cok-bate, -boit, n. Also: -bait, -bot. [ME. cok bote, cokboot (Lydgate), f. Cok n.3] A small ship's boat.1494 Treas. Acc. I. 253.
For … seyme and rufe to the cokbate
1573 Edinb. Test. I. 323 b.
The ane half of my cokbait
1603 Moysie 68.
The said lord Maxvell … withdrew him selff, and past … in ane cok-boit to Ilshay
1603 Crim. Trials II. ii. 409.
Thai … chaissit him to ane cokboit, quhilk he was compellit to tak
1617–8 M. Works Acc. XIV. b.
For bringing thaim [slates] … in … a boitt and 2 cokbottis
1633 Maxwell Mem. II. 243.
Sume folkis, … teuk ane cok bot, and vnlokit for, the tempest rais

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