A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
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Quotation dates: 1399-1400, 1500-1560, 1700+
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Couch, Cowch, n. Also: chuch, couche, coutch(e, cowtch. [ME. cowche, couche (1340), OF. couche.] A couch, a bed; a cradle-cloth.a1400 Legends of the Saints xvi. 311.
Thu in chuchis and silkine clathis Lyis ful softe 1506 Treasurer's Accounts III. 268.
For making the cowch and carding the woll to it 1506 Ib. 275.
v … elne Franch lynnyn to be tua couches for the tua cradilles c1500-c1512 Dunb. xl. 6.
On cowch besyd the fyre scho satt 1513 Doug. iii. viii. 16.
Palynurus furth of his cowch vpsprent 1560 Rolland Seven Sages 4320.
Ane litill hound … He lufis sa weill, that nichtlie in his bed He makis his couche 1703 Househ. Bk. Gr. Baillie 173.
For a black coutche with canvis botom
