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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: 1378, 1436-1589, 1641-1643

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Cage(a)t, Cadge(a)t, n. Also: caget(te, caggett, caggatt; cadgett, -jett. [Of obscure origin.] A small box; a casket.(a) 1378 Rotuli Sc. II. 7/2.
Diversa vasa de peweter, worstedes, sellas, cagettes, stopes
1436 Reg. Episc. Aberd. II. 145.]
[Quinque ciste rotunde, … sex cagete magne
1485 Acts Lords of Council *110/2.
The said letter of tak quhilk … he tuke out of a caget
1582–3 Elgin Rec. I. 169.
Alexander Pringill … deliuerit tuenty schillingis … quhilk wes putt in the cadget
1589 Treasurer's Accounts MS. 148 b.
For tua pair of cadjettis … to his maiesties vse
1641 Elgin Rec. I. 271.
The sex peice of the tounes wreitts … [were] delyverit back … to be put in the cadgett
1643 Ib. 278.
Theis [letters] to be put in the caggett
(b) 1488 Treasurer's Accounts I. 80.
Fund … in the blak kist, thre cofferis, a box, a cageat
1488 Ib. 81.
In a cageat, beand within the said blak kist, a braid chenȝe, a ball of cristall
1501 Ib. II. 23.
Giffin for tua cadgeatis to the King to turs sarkis, bonatis, hattis, and smal gere
1501 Ib. 107.
For ane hors to Strivelin with the Kingis new cadgeatis
1546 Acts Lords of Council MS. XXII. 136.
Euidentis … in lokyt schrynis, kistis, and cageatis
1585 Treasurer's Accounts MS. 61 b.
To Robert Robertsoun, Master of his hienes siluer weschell, to by caggattis to thame
1585 Reg. Morton I. 145.
Twenty gude … cariage horssis and thair graithe for … beiring of cadgeattis or barrellis

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