An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language / in which the words are explained in their different senses, authorized by the names of the writers by whom they are used, or the titles of the works in which they occur, and deduced from their originals

by John Jamieson

COCKS. To cast at the cocks, to waste, to squander, S. from the barbarous custom of throwing for a piece of money at a cock tied to a stake.
Ramsay.

COCK-STULE, CUKSTULE, s.
1. The cucking-stool or tumbrell.
Bur. Lawes.

Teut. kolcken, ingurgitare, or kaecke, the pillory.

2. This term has accordingly been used, in later times, to denote the pillory, S.
Ramsay.

COD, s. A pillow, S. A. Bor.
Compl. S.

A. S. codde, a bag. Isl. kodde, a pillow.

Codware, s. A pillow-slip, S.

A. S. waer, retinaculum, Su. G. war, id. from waeri, to keep, to cover.

CODBAIT, s.
1. The Lumbricus marinus, Loth.
2. The straw-worm, ibid.

A. S. codd, folliculus.