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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
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Couch, Cowch, n. Also: chuch, couche, coutch(e, cowtch. [ME. cowche, couche (1340), OF. couche.] A couch, a bed; a cradle-cloth. a1400 Leg. S. xvi. 311.
Thu in chuchis and silkine clathis Lyis ful softe 1506 Treas. Acc. III. 268.
For making the cowch and carding the woll to it Ib. 275.
v … elne Franch lynnyn to be tua couches for the tua cradilles c1500-c1512 Dunb. xl. 6.
On cowch besyd the fyre scho satt 1513 Doug. iii. viii. 16.
Palynurus furth of his cowch vpsprent 1560 Rolland Seven S. 4320.
Ane litill hound … He lufis sa weill, that nichtlie in his bed He makis his couche 1703 Househ. Bk. Gr. Baillie 173.
For a black coutche with canvis botom