▪ I. † ˈcodware1 Obs.
[f. cod n.1 + ware n.]
1. Podded vegetables, pulse.
| 1398 Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xvii. xcv. (1495) 662 Legumina: codware that seruyth to potage. Ibid., Amonge codware Lupines and beenys ben grettest. 1669 Worlidge Syst. Agric. (1681) 161 Of all the sorts of Codware, there is none so fruitful..as..the French or Kidney-bean. |
2. = cod n.1 4.
| c 1460 J. Russell in Babees Bk. 135 Put not youre handes in youre hosen youre codware for to clawe. |
▪ II. ˈcodware2 Sc.
[f. cod n.2 + ware n.]
A pillow-case. (Sc. and north. dial.)
| ? 1488 in Ld. Treas. Acc. Scotl. I. 151 Thre elne and a half of smal braide clayth to be cod wayris to the King. 1530 Inv. in Nugæ Derelictæ (1880) x. 9 Item vj codds w{supt} iiij codwaris. 1562 Wills & Inv. N.C. (1835) 206 iiijor coddwayeres & four towells. 1676 Galston Kirk Sess. Rec. in Old Ch. Life Scotl. (1885) 139 Two napkins and linen to be a codware to keep them in. |