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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
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Quotation dates: 1494, 1573-1641
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Cok-bate, -boit, n. Also: kok- and -bait, -bot. [ME. cok bote, cokboot (Lydgate), f. Cok n.3] A small ship's boat. 1494 Treasurer's Accounts I. 247.
To the men of the Kyngis kok[b]ate for viij diet at the loche viij s. 1494 Ib. 253.
For … seyme and rufe to the cokbate 1573 Edinburgh Testaments I. 323 b.
The ane half of my cokbait 1603 Moysie 68.
The said lord Maxvell … withdrew him selff, and past … in ane cok-boit to Ilshay 1603 Criminal Trials II. ii. 409.
Thai … chaissit him to ane cokboit, quhilk he was compellit to tak 1617–8 Master of Works Accounts XIV. b.
For bringing thaim [slates] … in … a boitt and 2 cokbottis 1633 Maxwell Mem. II. 243.
Sume folkis, … teuk ane cok bot, and vnlokit for, the tempest rais 1640–1 Ruthven Corr. 72.
The lyfe of the skipper and companie [was] miraculusly saived by the kok bot
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