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Main(s)chot(t, n. Also: mayn(e)-, man-, menmeane- and -shott, -shote, -schoit(t; mayne-, manschet, menschat. [Corresp. to late ME. and e.m.E. manchet(e (c 1420), -chett, -cheat, maynchet (1481), maunchet (15th c.), mengyd, manged (15th c.), mayngate (16th c.); of doubtful origin.] A roll or loaf of the finest wheaten bread. Also attrib. with flour. (Cf. Maine n.).(a) 1555–6 Edinb. Old Acc. I. 175.
Quhen the commissars of burrowis convenit in the tolbuyth, twa quartis wyne and twa mainchottis, price v s.iiij d.
1558 Mill Mediæv. Plays 186.
For vj mayn schotts, xij d.
1582 Argyll Acc. 28 Aug.
On the xxviij of August send to Campbell of small mainschoitts iijxx, … send of greit mainschoitts vxx
Ib. 5 Sept., etc. 1600–1 Edinb. B. Rec. V. 280.
The mayneschottis of flour, fadges, … and siclyk breid keipis na pais or wecht
1612 Ib. VI. 94 [see Maine n. (5).]1629 Reg. Privy C. 2 Ser. III. 197. 1680 Edinb. B. Rec. X. 389.
The … exhorbitant pryces for the rolls mainshotts and the lyke bread
1686 Irvine Mun. II. 303.attrib. 1595 Duncan App. Etym.
Simila, manshote flour
(b) 1558–9 Edinb. Old Acc. I. 281.
Ane manschot
1615 Edinb. B. Rec. VI. 129.
To present the same [flour] sufficientlie baikin in manshotts upone Wednisday nixt
(c) 1584 St. A. Baxter Bks. 37.
That na seruice man sall baik ony menschoittis except onlie the fluir he bocht fra ane freman
1629 Stirling B. Rec. I. 163.
That na baxteris within this burgh … sell ony meaneschottis within the samyn
(d) 1591 Thanes of Cawdor 208.
Twa menschattis xij d.
1622 Perth Kirk S. MS. 5 Nov.
That my Lord Chancelare serueandis caussit baik sum manschetis to serue the supper
Ib. 12 Nov.
Mayneschetis

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