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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: 1399-1614

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Crowat, Crowet, n. Also: crouat, crwat, croad; crouet, crowte; growat. [ME. crowet(te, crouette, cruett(e, cruete (c 1290), AF. cruete.]

1. A small bottle or vial for holding liquids, esp. for table use; a cruet.a1400 Legends of the Saints iii. 60.
The ȝoung man hynt deliuerly A wattir crowat, stud hyme by
1421 Douglas Chart. 57.
Twa crowetis of syluyr, … twa saltfattis of syluer
1506 Treasurer's Accounts III. 362.
To Matho Auchlek for making of tua crowatis to the Quene
1507 Ib. 403; etc.
For ane bell, ane flacat, and ane crowat for the Princes closet
c1552 Lynd. Mon. 6183.
Tak ane crowat, one pynte stope, and one quart, … Of wyne, or balme
c1552 Ib. 6187.
The lytill crouat … Salbe so full
1578 Protocol Book of J. Scott 57 b.
Ane tas of trie with ane siluer fuit, twa maissairis, … twa crowattis of siluer
1614 Edinburgh Testaments XLVIII. 61 b.
Sex silwer spunes and ane silwer beir crowte

2. A small vessel to hold wine, oil, or water, for ecclesiastical use.(a) c 1450 Misc. Maitl. C. III. 203.
Four siluer crowatis, tua mair & tua les
1500 Edinb. B. Rec. I. 87.
Siluer candilstekis, siluer crowatis and vther anornamentis for the kirk
1533 Boece vi. xii. 210.
The king … anornyt that kirk with cowpis, chalices, lawaris, crowatis of gold and siluer
1535 Stewart 53347.
Tha … spulȝeit it … Of chaleis, crowat, and censuris also
1547 Misc. Spald. C. V. 313.
The chapell graith of silver, that is to say … two silver croadds, ane haly water fatt
1559 Aberd. B. Rec. I. 320.
Tuo pair of censuris of tretty aucht wnce, togidder witht four crowattis
1572 Satirical Poems xxx. 185.
Haue we sic wrangous geir … As crowats, sensours, or ane challeis leid?
(b) 1540 Treasurer's Accounts VII. 397.
Twa crowettis, ane bell, ane boist to keip hoistis in
1549 Complaynte of Scotland 76/3.
The coupis, tassis, crouettis, crounis ande al the goldin ornamentis of the sanctuar
1549 Reg. Episc. Aberd. II. 196.
Item ij siluer crouettis maid in Pareis
1559 Chart. St. Giles p. cvi.
Tua crowettis weyand twentye tua unce
(c)1542 Inv. Wardrobe 58.
Ane haly watter fatt … , twa growattis

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