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cogue, cog Chiefly Sc.
(kəʊg, Sc. kɔːg, koːg)
Forms: 6 Sc. coig, 7– cogue, 8– cog. ‘Kelly writes coag: this, or cogue, most nearly approaches to the sound’ (Jamieson).
[Origin uncertain: see various conjectures in Jamieson.]
1. (Sc.) A wooden vessel made with staves and hoops, used in milking cows or ewes, and for other purposes.
The cogue or cogie now or recently used in the south of Scotland is 12 inches deep, 18 inches in diameter at the bottom, narrowing to 15 at the top, with three polished iron hoops, and one of the staves continued as an upright handle.
a1568Bannatyne Poems 156 (Jam.) Ane coig, ane caird wantand ane naill. 1595Duncan App. Etymol. (E.D.S.), Mulctra, a milk-cog. 1768Ross Helenore 136 (Jam.) Gin ye, fan the cow flings, the cog cast awa'. 17..Sc. Song, Cauld Kail in Aberdeen Chorus, I wadna gie my three-gir'd cog For a' the queans in Bogie. 1816Scott Old Mort. Introd., Bickers, bowls, spoons, cogues and trenchers, formed of wood. 1821Blackw. Mag. IX. 318 And kilted maiden came her cog to fill. 1854H. Miller Sch. & Schm. (1858) 269 A cog of milk occupied a small shelf.
2. A small drinking-vessel or cup, of wood; also † a cogueful, a ‘dram’.
1690A. Behn Widow Ranter i. i, Come, Jack, I'll give thee a cogue of brandy for old acquaintance. 1719D'Urfey Pills VI. 351 To relish a Cogue of good Ale. 1724Ramsay Tea-t. Misc. (1733) I. 29 Come fill us a cogue of swats. 1828Scott F.M. Perth xxviii, Hooped cogues or cups, out of which the guests quaffed their liquor, as also the broth or juice of the meat. 1887Kent. Gloss., Cogue, a dram of brandy.
3. (Sc.) A dry measure.
1762Bp. Forbes Jrnl. (1886) 205 Carrying a Stocking full of Buckies and a wooden Dish or Cog as a measure. 1814Proof of Mill of Inveramsay 1 (Jam.) A cog of sheeling is one fourth of a peck.
Hence cogue, cog v., trans. to put into a cogue; † intr. to drink drams; cogueful, cogful, as much as a cogue will hold.
1730–6Bailey, Cogue, to drink Brandy. 1775Ash, Cogue, to drink Brandy, to drink drams. 1737Ramsay Sc. Prov. (1776) 87 (Jam.) Ye watna what wife's ladle may cogue your kail. a1693in Sc. Presbyt. Eloq. (1719) 135 Give him a Cogful of Brose to his belly. 1814Proof of Mill of Inveramsay 2 (Jam.) A cogful of meal. 1822Scott Pirate v, A cogfu' of warm parritch. |