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† ˈgillot Obs.
Also 4–6 gillet, 6 gillat, gylat.
[prob. a dim. of the female name Gill (cf. gill n.4); ‘Gillet, a woman's name’ (Phillips 1658, who connects it with Giles).]
1. A loose or wanton woman (cf. jillet).
1557Tottel's Misc. (Arb.) 211 What though a gyllot sent that note, By cocke and pye I meant it not. 1561Schole-ho. Wom. 559 in Hazl. E.P.P. IV. 126 The fairer woman the more gillot. 1579–80North Plutarch (1676) 757 In honest mens houses..he would haue..these tumbling gillots lodged.
2. Sc. A mare.
c1375Sc. Leg. Saints, Justina 112 Þarfor be his nygramancy He wald wirk mony ferly, As to gere a womane apere As scho ane wgly gillet were [L. matronas in jumenta convertere videbatur]. c1450Henryson Mor. Fab. 898 in Anglia IX. 369 The jolie gillet and the gentill steid, The asse, the mule, the hors of euerie kynd. 1494Acta Dom. Conc. (1839) 321 Gillot wt sadill and Ryding gere price v crovnis. 1508Dunbar Tua mariit wemen 114 He feppillis like a farcy aver, that flyrit on a gillot [Maitland MS. gylat]. |