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First published 1951 (DOST Vol. II).
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Quotation dates: 1568-1682
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Gote, Goit, Goat(e, n.1 Also: gotte, got. [ME. gote (14th c.), MLG. and MDu. gote (Du. goot).] A trench, ditch, or watercourse.(a) 1568 Protocol Book of J. Foulis 61 b.
Ane goit to be cassin in the medo to the merche fur as the pittis ar set 1574 Glasgow Protocols Abstracts VII. 66.
[An acre having] fossam lie goit [on the north] 1580 Edinb. B. Rec. IV. 163.
The hie passages and kairt gaittis … ar pairtlie nairowet and stoppet be casting of gottes and fowsis 1580 Ib. 164.
To fill vp the saidis goittis 1582 Glasgow B. Rec. i. 94.
Waltir Gray … is oblist … to big ane bow brige … wpoune the gote and burne that passis throw the commoune bog 1627 Banff Ann. II. 212.
Discending thairfra down ane hollo goit … till it cum to aue low water 1640 Dundonald Par. Rec. 482.
It was ordained to summond Thomas Gibsoun … for casting of a got that Fast day(b) c1590 Fowler I. 276/28.
Me thinks … [the earth] hath opned vp the throate Off her great gulf to suallou me and burie in her goate 1641 Aberd. B. Rec. III. 260.
The … counsell ordainis the fauld bigit vpoun the linkis benorth Brabneris goat to be dimolishit and cast down 1675 Dundee B. Laws 160.
They did find it necessare … that the west goat [at the harbour] should be taken away 1682 Irvine Mun. II. 299.
To Robert Miller for casting the goat leading to the loch runing betwixt the taelling rigs and the town lands