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单词 colpindach
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colpindachn.

Etymology: Apparently related to Irish and Gaelic colpa full-grown cow, colpach, colbthach heifer: ? a corruption of the last.
Obsolete. Scots Law.
A heifer.
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1492 in Acta Dom. Concilii 265 (Jam.) XL oxen, xx ky, a bull, auchtene cowpendochis.
1597 J. Skene De Verborum Significatione Colpindach, ane young beast or kow, of the age of an or twa yeires, quhilk is now called an Cowdach or Quoyach.
1609 J. Skene tr. Regiam Majestatem 2. They ordeined to the Crowners, for their fie..ane colpindach (ane quyach, or ane young kow) or threttie pennies.
1822 P. Chalmers Duelling 120 If the appealer in ordinary crimes was worsted his pledges paid the King nine cows and a colpindach.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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