A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
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Corchet, -at, n. [ME. crochett (c 1440), OF. crochet hook.] A crotchet in music. —c1500-c1512 Dunb. xxii. 18 (B).
The pyet … Fenȝeis to sing the nychtingalis not; Bot scho can nevir the corchat [M. corchet] cleif
