gowpen

Examples

• A lodging, such as it was, was readily granted to them in some of the out-houses, and the usual awmous (alms) of a handful of meal (called a gowpen) was scarce denied by the poorest cottager.

  The Antiquary

• You come here with a very singular story, and nowt to back it but a glib tongue and your smooth, innocent-like young face -- and you go back hame with a heaped gowpen of gold, and mair in the kist ahint of that.

  Copper Streak Trail

• The farmer's dame lacked her usual share of intelligence, perhaps also the self-applause which she had felt while distributing the awmous (alms), in shape of a gowpen (handful) of oatmeal, to the mendicant who brought the news.

  Guy Mannering, Or, the Astrologer — Complete

• The _lock_, signifying a small quantity, and the _gowpen_, a handful, were additional perquisites demanded by the miller, and submitted to or resisted by the _Suckener_ as circumstances permitted.

  The Monastery

• Besides, a bag was suspended in the mill for David Ritchie’s benefit; and those who were carrying home a melder of meal, seldom failed to add a gowpen [Handful] to the alms-bag of the deformed cripple.

  The Black Dwarf

• In bulk and in value his volume stands in the same relation to Mr. Dick’s, as a handful, I may say a _gowpen_ of chaff does to a grain of wheat, or a bushel of sawdust to an ounce of meal.

  Spare Hours