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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
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Quotation dates: 1424-1641
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Colt, n.1 Also: coult; cout. ? Also: kout. [ME. colt(e, OE. colt, young ass or camel.] A young horse.1424 Acts II. 4/2.
A wilde meir and hir folowar … a colt of thre ȝer and mare of eild 1424 Ib.
The bestis ar taxit on this maner, … ilk cout … ane merk1460 Exchequer Rolls VII. 26.
Pro pabulo sex equorum juvenum dictorum coltis domine regine a1500 Peblis to Play 54.
Ane ȝoung man stert in to that steid Als cant as ony colt c1500-c1512 Dunb. Tua Mar. W. 354.
Se how I cabeld ȝone cout with a kene brydilla1568 Bannatyne MS 135 a/20.
Ane colt of a gud stude happynnis to be best 1576 Edinburgh Testaments IV. 212 b.
Ane fillie and ane coult of thrie ȝeir auld
b. Attrib. with evill, foill (foal), heltir, silver, staig. ? Also in place-name Kovtwarde.(1)a1605 Montg. Flyt. 295 (T).
The coirdis, the colt evill [H. cout-evill], the claspis, and the cleikis — 1603 Philotus xcvii.
Scho is a colt-foill, not a fillie —1641 Acts V. 447/2.
That he [the horse] had ane rash colt-heltir in his heid —1495 Reg. Great S. 478/2.
Illam custumam sibi hereditarie contingentem ex suo officio vicecomitatus de Forfar, vulgariter nuncupatam le colt et coltsilver primarum nundinarum burgi de Dunde 1542 Ib. 599/2.
Officium constabularie de Dunde … cum lie colt silver et custumis prime nundine de Dunde 1587 Ib. 485/2.
Lie colt-sylver et custumas the first fair de Dundie 1617 Ib. 629/1. —1583 Edinburgh Testaments XII. 175 b.
He levis … to Johne McKie … the coult staig that he hes him self 1593 Ib. XXVI. 96 b.
Ane broun colt staig gangand with him self in the watter heid(2) 1466 Chart. Coupar A. II. 60.
Per quoddam mariscum inter dictas terras. .dictas le Kovtwarde
