Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An old English preterit of
cast , still used in Scotch.
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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
cast .
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Examples
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They hae coost up my kindred to Rob to me already — set up their nashgabs!
Rob Roy 2005
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Frae his hand he coost his stick; "I winna gang and leave thee;"
The Modern Scottish Minstrel , Volume I. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century Various
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And coost her duddies to the wark, [cast, rags, work]
Robert Burns How To Know Him William Allan Neilson 1907
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They hae coost up my kindred to Rob to me already --- set up their nashgabs!
Rob Roy 1887
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Ye ser'd me as the wife did the cat -- coost me into the kirn, and syne harl'd me out again.
The Proverbs of Scotland Alexander Hislop 1836
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I had but little butter, an 'that I coost on the coals.
The Proverbs of Scotland Alexander Hislop 1836
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They hae coost up my kindred to Rob to me already -- set up their nashgabs!
Rob Roy — Complete Walter Scott 1801
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They hae coost up my kindred to Rob to me already -- set up their nashgabs!
Rob Roy — Volume 02 Walter Scott 1801
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And in this yere was lost a good town in Normandye of the lord Scales, that is called there Graundevyle, in the coost of Baas Normandye, toward the coost of Bretaigne, wyth his bastard sone therinne; and the substaunce of alle the good that the lord Scales hadde in that land was thereinne, the whiche was falsly sold be a man that he trusted most too whiles he was at Roon.
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Shure, there's nivver the lad on the coost, that knows betther what it is yer honour wants, or who'll supply yees, with half the good will. "
Miles Wallingford Sequel to "Afloat and Ashore" James Fenimore Cooper 1820
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