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Quotation dates: 1591-1641
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(Cowper-,) Couper-boit(t, n. Also: cowpper, kowpar. [f. Cowper,n.] A boat used for the purchase of herring from the fishermen. 1591 Edinburgh Testaments XXIII. 7 b.
Ane couper boitt with hir haill sailling geir 1595 Ib. XXVIII. 350 b.
The couper boit with hir geir 1600 Rec. Convention of Royal Burghs II. 91.
Ilk kowpar boit of hering [to pay] anis in the ȝeir iij s. iiij d. 1628 Reg. Privy C. 2 Ser. II. 467.
Ilke cowpper boate of hering anes in the yeere three shillings foure penneis 1641 Glasgow B. Rec. I. 435.
That … ilk slayer boate haue tua straikes above, and ilk couper ane or mair
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