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Caldro(u)n, Cawdro(u)n, n. Also: caldrone, -eron (-erin); calder(o)un, -orun, caldrown, -run; cauldron, -erone; caudron, cawdoron, cawdro(u)ne, cad(d)roune. [ME. caldron(e, calderon (15th c.; e.m.E. cauldron), earlier caud-, cawdron, caud(e)roun (c 1300), ONF. caud(e)roun, -ron, OF. chaud(e)ron.]

1. A caldron.See also brew-, brewing-, kettil-caldron.(a) a1400 Leg. S. xxxii. 748.
Befor the caldron to stande Ib. 754.
He … stud anente the caldrone 14.. Acts I. 44/2.
A caldrone, a ketill, a brandreth 1462 Peebles B. Rec. 143.
[She] sayd … at Thomas Dekysoun borowit fra her that caldron a1500 Seven S. 891.
[He] behufit to fall In a caldron full of pik 1494 Treas. Acc. I. 249.
For kechenfee bocht … and for a caldron to melt the kechen fe in 1513 Doug. i. iv. 91.
Sum gobbettis of lyre Kest in caldronys Ib. iii. vi. 215.
Caldronys, and othir seir veschell ma 1529 Edinb. B. Rec. II. 5.
To bring thar caldrone or kettellis to the cros and ding thame throw with ane puncione 1558 Inverness B. Rec. I. 18.
Ane aquavitte pot and ane caldron 1583 Edinb. Test. XII. 295.
I leue to Johne M^c Wnlawye … his awne caldrone quhilk I had in borrowing(b) c1420 Wynt. i. 1173.
As in a caldrown thar … For het of sown the se wyll play Ib. v. 4662.
He kest it down In-till Vulcanus holl caldrown 1507 Treas. Acc. IV. 83.
For four caldrownis to quinta essencia 1529 Reg. Great S. 178/1.
A pot, a pan, … a caldroun 1542 Rec. Univ. Aberd. 573.
Ane caldrown, ane gyle fatt 1582 Treas. Acc. MS. 83.
Ane mekle grite calderoun with ane bowll 1589 Glasgow B. Rec. I. 128.
Ane brewing caldroun, … ane middlewort caldroun 1594 Edinb. Test. XXVII. 299.
Ane litill bowit caldroun 1607 Crim. Trials II. ii. 526.
The fagget of Hell lycht on the, and Hellis caldroune may thow seith in!(c) 1462 Peebles B. Rec. I. 143.
Sir Wilyem of Fylop ... alegit at scho auch nocht to haf the possessioun of that cauldron 1560 Treas. Acc. XI. 20.
Ane caulderone of bras … weiand ij stane xij li.(d) 1457 Peebles B. Rec. 119.
A brof caudron, a pot 1488 Acta Aud. 119/2.
Twa cawdoronis, sex pottis, twa pannis 1492 Acta Conc. 256/2.
Twa caddrovnis 1497 Treas. Acc. I. 344.
For ane cawdroune to thaim to the schip 1531 Bell. Boece I. p. xliii.
Utheris [of the salmon] ar keppit in cawdrounis; for the landwart peple settis oftimes cawdrounis … at the cheik of the lin 1553 Fam. Rose 219.
The said Lard sall furnis the said Johnne of fat, stand, barrell, pot, pan and cawdron, and elding 1583 St. A. Test. II. 1.
Ane cawdroun 1627 Stirling's Royal Lett. I. 240.
A great cadroune, and tuoe dossen lesser

2. Attrib. with blak, boddom, bow, bras, cruke. 1597 Edinb. Test. XXX. 57 b.
xxiiij ellis of caldroun blak claytht — 1521 Stirling B. Rec. I. 12.
Undir the pane of … the dingin fourcht of the calderun bodim 1552 Edinb. B. Rec. II. 166.
Undir the pane of … dinging out of the calderin bodum 1553 Ib. 177.
The secund panis specifiit in the statutis is the straiking furth of the caldorun boddome a 1600 Aberd. B. Rec. (J) .
For the third falt thair cawdrone bowddumys to be dungin out — 1598 Black Bk. Taymouth 333.
Off scuttallis, … fyre pannis, … caldroun bowis [etc.] — 1595 Edinb. Test. XXVIII. 47 b.
Tua stane caldroun bras — c1500-c1512 Dunb. v. 4.
Scho wes like a caldrone cruke cler vnder kellis 1660 Melrose R. Rec. I. 271.
Ane caldron cruik