[82b] Copen, buy. Dutch, koopen.
[94j] Cordiwin, or cordewane, Cordovan leather.
[89] Coueyn, coveyne convening or conspiring of two or more to defraud.
[94f] Crank, lively. A boat was “crank” when frail, lightly and easily tossed on the waves, and liable to upset. Prof. Skeat thinks that the image of the tossed boat suggested lively movement.
[151c] Creeshie flannen, greasy flannel.
[151e] Cummock, a short staff with a crooked head.
[151f] Cutty, short; so cutty pipe, short pipe.
[85a] Darrain, decide. To “arraign” was to summon ad rationes to the pleadings. To darraign was derationare, to bring them to a decision.
[86b] Defy, digest. As in the Vision of Piers Plowman
“wyn of Ossye
Of Ruyn and of Rochel, the rost to defye.”