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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
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Codware, Codwair, n. Also: codwar, -var; codwayre, -wer, codd-, kod-, quodwair, codwaird; coadwar, -wair. [Cod n., Ware n. Also northern e.m.E. (1562).] A pillow-case.(a) 1495 Treas. Acc. I. 226.
Holland clath … to be the King scheitis, curches and codwaris 1530 Nugæ Derelictæ (1880) x. 9.
Item vj codds w^t iiij codwaris 1580 Aberd. B. Rec. II. 36.
Auchtene codvarris witht sextene tyikis 1580 Coll. Aberd. & B. 391.
Sax coddis, sax codvaris Ib.
Off lynning codvaris xxvij 1625 Brechin Test. IV. 178 b.
Aucht doun codis, aucht codwaris 1634 Aberd. Sheriff Ct. II. 423.
Thrie codis, … fourtie fyve codwares 1676 Galston Kirk S. in Old Ch. Life 139.
Two napkins and linen to be a codware to keep them in 1690 Hawick Arch. Soc. (1868) 36/2.
[She] did … give her ane cod-ware to put the samen [meal] in(b) 1488 Treas. Acc. I. 151.
For thre elne and a half of smal braide clayth to be cod wayris to the King 1495 Ib. 258.
ij pare of scheitis … heid scheitis, codwairis and odir thingis 1530 Lindores Chart. 32.
Fyf pairs of schets new clath, xij codwers 1589 Glasgow B. Rec. I. 142.
Twentie schillingis for ane cod and codwair 1612 Edinb. Test. XLVII. 1 b.
Ane dosane of kodwairis and kodis Ib. 110.
Thrie pair of scheitis and thrie quodwairis 1615 Haddington Corr. 292.
Holane cloathe coddwairs, … lynning coddwaires 1628 Stirling Ant. IV. 190.
[He got] ane codwair with ane peck of meall for his paines 1639 Aberd. B. Rec. III. 152.
Andro Burnet, thesaurer, exhibit … the wreittis and bands of the tounes mortifiet moneyes sealed within a codwair 1659 Melrose R. Rec. I. 252.
Two codis with cod wairds(c) 1644 Edinb. Test. LX. 376 b.
Fyv meikill coadwairis of lining and tua lesser 1648 Linlithgow Palace 331.
Tua coads with coadwairis 1661 Brechin Test. VI. 207.
Fourten coadwars 1664 Invent. 4 in Decreets Dal. XI.
1 dusson of coadwaires