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First published 1951 (DOST Vol. II).
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Ferlot, n. Also: ferlote, -latt, -let. [Reduced from ferthelot, ‘fourth part’. Cf. Firlot and Furlot.]

1. The fourth part of a boll. 1264 Comput. Vicecom. de Forfar (J.).
[In servicio regis iij celd. ij boll. et j ferthelota 1292 Rotuli Sc. 11/1.
Pro qualibet corolata bladi dabunt unam ferlotam 1330 Exch. R. I. 341.]
Unius ferlote, dimidie ferlote 1388 Antiq. Aberd. & B. III. 294.
Land to the sawing of sex ferlotis of bere 1427 Acts II. 13/2.
Ilk man telande with a pleuche of viij oxin sal saw … ilk ȝere a ferlot of quhete 1473 Reg. Cupar A. I. 181.
Payand … vj ferlotis of pese in cossyng for alsmekil mele 1505 Exch. R. XII. 673.
A stak of ber castyn, the pruf drew to ij ferlotis ij peccis 1554 Reg. Cupar A. II. 117.
Thay payand thairfor ȝerelie … tway bollis, thre ferlottis, tway peckis blak atis 1595 Stirling Chart. 218.
Gif it be within ane ferlet of aittis 1668 Corshill Baron Ct. 77.
Ane ferlot of eatten corne 1689 Foulis Acc. Bk. 114.
For a feirlet of salt

2. A measure containing a firlot. 1425 Acts II. 12/1.
The … ferlote … sal contene in breid evin ourethorte xvi inchys vndir & aboune within the burdis 1446 Exch R. V. 225.
Pro una ferlota lignea … missa Strivelinead usus regis 1512 Dundee Chart. No. 47.
The using of ony wechtis or mesouris as stanis, pundis, balancis, pyntis, ferlotis, elnwandis 1552 Edinb. B. Rec. II. 162.
The mesouris callit the watter mettis for salt, ry, quheit and beir, and siclik the ferlottis for meill and sic victuell 1560 Peebles B. Rec. 272.
[He] sall vphald the metlummis, ferlottis and peckis, … sufficientlie