hotte Obs. (14th c.)
Of uncertain meaning.
(Although the sense is obscure, it is prob. the same word as hot n.1 ‘panier, creel’. The suggestion that it is a variant of hut is, from the history of that word, inadmissible.)
| c 1300 Langtoft's Chron. (Rolls) II. 236 Skaterd be the Scottes, Hoderd in thar hottes, Never thay ne the [in R. Brunne (1810) 273 For scatred er þi Scottes, & hodred in þer hottes, neuer þei ne the]. c 1330 R. Brunne Chron. (1810) 282 Þou scabbed Scotte, þi nek, þi hotte, þe deuelle it breke, It salle be hard to here Edward, ageyn þe speke. |