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.
| a 1568 Bannatyne Poems 156 (Jam.) Ane coig, ane caird wantand ane naill. 1595 Duncan App. Etymol. (E.D.S.), Mulctra, a milk-cog. 1768 Ross 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. 1816 Scott Old Mort. Introd., Bickers, bowls, spoons, cogues and trenchers, formed of wood. 1821 Blackw. Mag. IX. 318 And kilted maiden came her cog to fill. 1854 H. 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’.
| 1690 A. Behn Widow Ranter i. i, Come, Jack, I'll give thee a cogue of brandy for old acquaintance. 1719 D'Urfey Pills VI. 351 To relish a Cogue of good Ale. 1724 Ramsay Tea-t. Misc. (1733) I. 29 Come fill us a cogue of swats. 1828 Scott 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. 1887 Kent. Gloss., Cogue, a dram of brandy. |
3. (Sc.) A dry measure.
| 1762 Bp. Forbes Jrnl. (1886) 205 Carrying a Stocking full of Buckies and a wooden Dish or Cog as a measure. 1814 Proof 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.
| 1730–6 Bailey, Cogue, to drink Brandy. 1775 Ash, Cogue, to drink Brandy, to drink drams. 1737 Ramsay Sc. Prov. (1776) 87 (Jam.) Ye watna what wife's ladle may cogue your kail. a 1693 in Sc. Presbyt. Eloq. (1719) 135 Give him a Cogful of Brose to his belly. 1814 Proof of Mill of Inveramsay 2 (Jam.) A cogful of meal. 1822 Scott Pirate v, A cogfu' of warm parritch. |