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Col(e)-, Coil-pit, n. Also: colpet, collpitt. [ME. colepit (1447), colepet (1241).] A coal-pit. 1531 Soc. Ant. II. 403.
All the laif of the common gud to be warit on the wynning of a coil pit on Glaidsmuir Ib.
The act maid anent the wynning of the coilpet 1547–8 Treas. Acc. IX. 155.
To Alexander Cunynghame, … to pas to the grevis of the colpettis about Edinburght 1662 Lamont Diary 158.
Ther were about 6 or 8 divers persons lossed in the Lord Sinclars collpitt, att Dysert, by a noysome or corrupt aire