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▪ I. scot, n.2|skɒt|
Also 3–4 scoth, 4 scott, 5–6 scotte, 6 skot(t, skotte.
[Ultimately identical with OE. sc(e)ot, ᵹesc(e)ot shot n.; its formal relation to this is somewhat uncertain.
There can be little doubt that ME. scot is in part of Scandinavian origin, a. ON. skot; but in some instances it may represent the OF. escot (mod.F. écot), which is an adoption of the Teut. word; in some uses, again (esp. in Rome-scot) the OE. written form may have been preserved traditionally or revived from documents.]
1. A payment, contribution, ‘reckoning’; esp. payment for entertainment; a or one's share of such payment; chiefly in the phrase to pay (for) (one's) scot: lit. and fig.
1297R. Glouc. (Rolls) 6001 Verst hii wolde ete & drinke..& suþþe þe louerd of þe hous quelle..& suþþe brenne al is hous al uor hor scot ywis. 1340Ayenb. 51 And þanne me hine [sc. the glutton] anhongeþ. Þis is þet scot: þet me ofte payþ. 1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. vi. xxiii. (1495) 213 After souper that is freely yeue it is not honest to compell a man to pay his scot. c1430Pilgr. Lyf Manhode iii. xxii. (1869) 147 Þat is þilke þat biseecheth bred for þe loue of god, and wole in no place pay scotte for no thing þat she dispendeth. 1483Caxton G. de la Tour i iij b, God payeth yt grete scot for he rendred to C. double. 1534More Comf. agst. Trib. ii. Wks. 1177/2 If so be..that they haue founde out so easye awaye to heauen, as to take no thought, but make mery,..and then lette Chrystes passion paye for all the scotte. c1566Merie Tales of Skelton in S.'s Wks. (1843) I. p. lviii, Ise bay for your skott to London. 1729P. Walkden Diary 4 July (1866) 29, I asked him what I owed him;..I gave him half-a-crown, but he gave me 6d. back... So we are clear of all the scots that I know of. 1759in Catal. Archives All Souls' Coll. (1877) 227 The scots have been very high. 1860Emerson Cond. Life, Wealth Wks. (Bohn) II. 346 No system of clientship suits them; but every man must pay his scot. 1870A. Steinmetz Gaming Table I. viii. 214 Some silly lad..allows himself to be..wheedled into paying their scot. 1879Pattison Milton iii. 36 He paid his scot by reciting from memory some of his youthful Latin verses. 1879G. F. Jackson Shropsh. Word-bk., Scot, an ale-house reckoning.
†b. Comb., as scot-penny.
1319in Gross Gild Merch. (1890) II. 13 Solvent denar' qui Scot peny vocatur. 1338Andover Gild Rolls ibid. 335 Summa denariorum receptorum de scotpanes, sigepanes et hanspanes in domo inferiori xlii.s. v.d.
†2. A customary tax laid on, or a contribution paid by subjects according to their ability; a custom paid to the use of a sheriff or bailiff; a local or municipal tax. Obs.
1387Trevisa Higden (Rolls) II. 97 Scot, a gaderynge in work of baylifes. 1432–50tr. Higden ibid., Scot, that is the paymente of a certeyne money to the vtilite of the lorde. 1545Elyot Dict., Cloacarium, scotte in a towne for clensynge of commune draughtes. 1646J. Benbrigge Usura Accom. 15 So they may..at least be eased in their Scots and Taxes.
3. spec. A tax levied on the inhabitants of the marshes and levels of Kent and Sussex (see quots.).
1793A. Young Agric. Sussex 22 In Pevensey, and generally in all the levels, is raised a tax by the acre, called Scot, both general and particular. The general scot is applied for the purposes of paying water-bailiffs expenses... The particular scot is applied for the.. looking after the streams and sewers. 1896Daily News 1 June 4/6 This ‘scot’ is a special rate on the agriculturists of the marshes, and in some years has amounted to as much as 8s. in the {pstlg}.
4. scot and lot (earlier lot and scot): a tax levied by a municipal corporation in proportionate shares upon its members for the defraying of municipal expenses. Phrase, to pay (a person off) lot and scot (fig.), to pay out thoroughly, to settle with. Also shot and lot: see shot n.
1227in Gross Gild Merch. (1890) II. 211 Si aliquis natiuus alicuius in prefato Burgo manserit,..et fuerit in prefata Gilda et Hansa et loth et Scoth cum eisdem Burgensibus [etc.]. 1320Rolls of Parlt. I. 377/2 Quod cum villa de Pevenese..fuerit..in Lote & Scott cum illa villa de Hastinges. 1494in Eng. Gilds (1870) 189, I shalbe redy at scotte and lotte, and all my duties truly pay and doo. 1537in W. H. Turner Select. Rec. Oxford 150 Robt. James..shall bere almaner of skotte and lotte. 1540Act 32 Hen. VIII, c. 42 §6 The said barbours..shal beare and pay lot and scot..within the sayd citie. 1596Shakes. 1 Hen. IV, v. iv. 115 Twas time to counterfet, or that hotte Termagant Scot, had paid me scot and lot too. 1640Jrnl. Ho. Commons II. 14 The Election was free to every one that paid Scot and Lot. 1710Addison Whig Exam. No. 5 ⁋3 The freeholders of Great Britain, as well as those that pay scot and lot. 1822Galt Sir A. Wylie xii. I. 92 Ye maun just gang your ways, for scot nor lot will I pay you, or the like o' you. 1835App. Munic. Corpor. Rep. i. 5 The Juries are selected by the bailiffs from the inhabitants paying scot and lot. 1844Dickens Mart. Chuz. xxiv, I'll pay you off scot and lot by and bye. 1865― Mut. Fr. i. xvi, She paid scot and she paid lot when she had money to pay. 1876Browning Pacchiarotto xiii, This notable Club Pacchiarotto Had joined long since, paid scot and lot to, As free and accepted ‘Bardotto’.
b. attrib.
1718Prior Protogenes & Apelles 12 Protogenes, Historians note, Liv'd there, a Burgess Scot and Lot. 1809Malkin Gil Blas iii. iv. ⁋8 This is really too flattering, interrupted the scot and lot gentleman. 1831Lincoln Herald 29 Apr., By Scot and Lot Voting. 1835App. Munic. Corpor. Rep. ii. 1059 (Seaford, Kent) The Commonalty are the scot and lot inhabitants. 1869Rogers Hist. Gleanings I. 67 The scot-and-lot voters. 1898J. E. C. Bodley France II. iii. iii. 157 Scot-and-lot electors.
▪ II. scot, n.3|skɒt|
[Cf. Icel. Skotti, a nickname for ‘a horse whose body and tail are of different colours’ (Vigf.), skott a (fox's) tail; also scut n.]
1. A name of a horse. Now dial. (Suffolk): see E.D.D.
c1386Chaucer Prol. 616 This Reue sat vpon a ful good stot, That was al pomely grey, and highte Scot. Ibid. Friar's T. 245 Hayt Brok, hayt Scot, what spare ye for the stones?
†2. An old name for the hare. Obs. rare—1. Cf. scotart, scotewine.
a1325Names of Hare in Rel. Ant. I. 133 The scot, the deubert [etc.].
▪ III. scot, v.|skɒt|
See also shot v.
[f. scot n.2]
†1. intr. To participate, share (with a person).
a1225Ancr. R. 348 Ase ȝe schotteð mid him of his pine on eorðe, also ȝe schulen scotten mid him of his blisse ine heouene.
b. Sc. in phr. to scot and lot: see scat v.2
1531Burgh Rec. Edin. (1871) II. 53 Because the saidis vnfremen nowthir scottis lottis, walkis nor wardis within our said fredome. 1583J. Balfour Practicks (1754) 48 Gif ony wedow buy and sell within burgh with the nichtbouris, sche sall scot and lot with thame in taxatiounis and utheris helpis.
2. trans. To lay (a person or property) under contribution of ‘scot’; to assess.
c1750in Catal. Archives All Souls' Coll. (1877) 226 List of owners of land scotted of Lydd Wall. 1774E. Jacob Faversham 28 All which lands and tenements are geldable by the abbot, and scotted and lotted as well as ourselves, for the service of our lord the king. 1864Lower in Sussex Archæol. Collect. XVI. 253 As low lands drained at a public or common charge are still said to be ‘scotted’.
Hence ˈscotted ppl. a., ˈscotting vbl. n.
1545Aberdeen Reg. (Jam.), Thair scotting & lotting, with the furing of his guids furth of Aberdeen to Leyth. 1893Doncaster Chron. 10 Nov. 1/5 That the sum of {pstlg}500 be allowed from the estate in reduction of the engine rates on the scotted lands. |