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▪ I. cocket, n.1|ˈkɒkɪt|
Forms: 5–6 cokkett, 5–9 cocquet, 6 coket, cokquet, 7 coquett, 8 cockett, 9 coquet, 6– cocket.
[In Anglo-Fr. cokkette, Anglo-Lat. coketa, -um: origin obscure.
A recent suggestion is that the name originated in the words quo quietus est, ‘by which he is quit’, with which the Customer's receipt concluded. (S. Dowell Hist. Taxation in Eng. (1878) I. 171.) It is by no means clear whether the name originally belonged to the document, or to the seal which gave it validity.]
1. Hist. A seal belonging to the King's Custom House. Also applied to other seals used to seal permits.
1293Rolls of Parlt. II. 138 b, Omnes homines venientes cum lanis..sine signo quod vocatur Coket. 1298Memoranda Excheq. 26 Edw. I, in Madox Hist. Excheq. I. 782 Quod illam partem sigilli Regis quod vocatur Coket, et quod Rex ad dictam custumam deputari fecit in portu predicto [viz. Novum Castrum super Tynam]. 1419Liber Albus (Record ed.) xvi. 45 Et adonqes le Maire delivera le Coket a celuy Viscount qil avera mesmes chosez, et les recordes a Chambirleyn [transl. And then the Mayor shall deliver the Cocket to such Sheriff as he himself shall have chosen, and the records to the Chamberlain for safe custody]. 1607J. Cowell Interpr., Cocket is a seale appertaining to the king's custome house. 1834H. Miller Scenes & Leg. iv. (1857) 48 An ancient customhouse seal or cocket.
b. Hence † Clerk of the Cocket, in Scotland.
c1350Act David II of Scotl. c. 39 (Du Cange) Et sit ibi Clericus ad tronam, qui..potest conuenienter esse Clericus Coketæ Regis. 1609Skene Reg. Maj., Act David II, 44 The clerk of the cocquet, sall controll beath the custumars, and the Tronaris.
2. A document sealed by the officers of the custom-house, and delivered to merchants as a certificate that their merchandise has been duly entered and has paid duty. (Now disused.)
1393Acts of Scotl. I. 581 a, Quod habeant duo folia cokete ad custumandum lanas suas. 1434Act 13 Hen. VI, c. 16 Les custumers dez ditz portes deins le Roialme ensealent blankes escrowes en parchemyn appellez blankes Cokkettez [transl. ed. 1587 blanke scrowes in parchmint called blanke cokets]. 1488Sc. Acts Jas. IV (1597) §3 That the saidis strangers..there pay their dewties and customes and take their cocquet as effeiris. 1512Instruct. Admiral in Rymer Fœdera (1710) XIII. 331 Examyn their Mynuments, Indentures, Wrytings and Cokketts. 1580Hollyband Treas. Fr. Tong, Vn Buletin, pour estre franc du port, a bill, a cocket. 1582–8Hist. Jas. VI (1804) 110 All and quhatsumeuer shipps of Scotland that were not fortified be the Queene of Scotland's coquett. 1622Malynes Anc. Law-Merch. 194 Commodities brought in, which haue payed Custome..may bee shipped out againe by Cocket, without paying any more Custome. 1708J. Chamberlayne St. Gt. Brit. ii. iii. (1743) 69 Officers of the Port of London. Register of the Certificate Coquets. 1802Naval Chron. VIII. 416 Mr. Whitmore produced the cockets from the cocket office. 1842J. A. Park Law Marine Insur. (ed. 8) II. xviii. 693 That a ship is not ready for sea, till she has got her customhouse cocket on board. 1872Daily News 5 Oct. 4 Notice by Ld. Mayor. Compulsory metage dues on grain, including cocket dues..cease from and after the 31st of October, 1872.
fig.a1640Jackson Creed xi. xxi. Wks. X. 406 All as many as have their fruit unto holiness in this life have the pledge, the earnest, or the cocket of the next.
3. ? A custom-house or customs office.
1711Madox Hist. Excheq. xviii. 537 That all merchants..who designed to export Wools..might safely carry them to the several Ports where the King had a Cocket, paying the old Duties only. [Cf.1730Bailey, Cockettum, cocketum, the Office at the Custom-house where the Goods to be exported are to be enter'd.]
4. The customs duty.
1483in Rymer XII. 182/1 De custumis et coquettis nostris. 1612Davies Why Ireland, etc. (1787) 31 The greatest profit did arise by the cocquet of hides. 1621Bolton Stat. Irel. 44 (12 Edw. IV) Not paying the custome of the king..called the Cocket. Ibid. 69 To the intent that the king..shall not be deceived of his Custome, Cocket, Tonage and poundage. 1755N. Magens Insurances I. 273 Charges. Custom, Town Dues and Cocquet {pstlg}47 18 11/4.
5. Comb., as cocket-writer.
1768Chron. in Ann. Reg. 191/1 One of the cocket-writers in the long room at the custom-house. 1841Hor. Smith Moneyed Man I. iv. 117 She is going to marry young Ned Simmons, the Cocket-writer, in the Custom House.
▪ II. † ˈcocket, n.2 Obs.
Also 4–7 coket.
[Origin unknown: the conjecture has been offered that this bread was so called because stamped with a seal (see cocket n.1); but evidence is wanting.]
Name of a sort of leavened bread, and of a loaf, slightly inferior in quality to the wastell or finest bread.
The name appears in the Statute of Bread and Ale, and was apparently quite obsolete before 1500, later references to it being only historical, and conjectural. cocket-bread, bread-cocket, are modern renderings of panis de coket.
1266Stat. Bread & Ale (51 Hen. III), Quando quarterium frumenti venditur pro xiid., tunc panis quadrantis de Wastello ponderabit sex libras et sexdecim solidos; Panis de Coket de eodem blado, & de eodem bultello, ponderabit plusquam Wastellum de duobus solidis; De blado minoris precii ponderabit plusquam Wastellum de quinque..Panis integer de quadrante de frumento ponderabit Coket & dimidium..Et panis de omni blado ponderabit duos Coketos. [16th c. transl. When a quarter of Wheat is sold for xiid. then wastel bread of a farthing shall weigh vili. & xvis. But Bread Cocket of a farthing of the same Corne and bultell, shall weigh more than wastell by iis. and Cocket bread made of Corne of lower price, shall weigh more than wastell by vs...Bread (of a farthing) made of the whole wheat shall weigh a cocket and an halfe, that is to say, the Cocket, that shall weigh more than a wastell by v.s...And bread of common Corne shall weigh two [great] cockets.] 1272–1307Munim. Gildhallæ Lond. (Rolls) III. 411 Nota, quod panis coket, i.e. panis levatus..ponderabit plus quam wastellus per ij solidos. 1362Langl. P. Pl. A. vii. 292 And þo nolde..no Beggere eten Bred þat Benes Inne coome, Bote Coket and Cler Matin an of clene whete. 1377Ibid. B. vi. 306 But of coket or clere-matyn or elles of clene whete. 1483Cath. Angl. 70 Cokett, effungia, est quidam panis.
Historical.1502Arnolde Chron. (1811) 49 The price of a quarter whet iij.s. The ferthing symnell poise xv. vuncis and dim. q't'. The ferthing whit loof coket poise xvij. vuncis dim. and ob'. 1638Penkethman Artach. C ij b, The Farthing White loafe of fine Cocket. 1678Phillips, Cocket-bread, the finest sort of Wheaten Bread, next to that called Wastel, which is the whitest. 1860Mun. Gildhallæ Lond. (Rolls) II. 793 Cokettus, panis, a loaf of cocket-bread.
▪ III. [cocket, n.3
is given by Todd (1818) in the sense of Fr. coquet cock-boat, but app. by some error; Sherwood is named as authority; but ed. 1632 has only ‘cocke-boat’.]
▪ IV. † ˈcocket, a. Obs. exc. dial.
Also cockit, cocked.
[perh. orig. a. Fr. coquet, coquette coquettish, gallant, agreeable (f. coq: see coquette), with the sense modified to express the strutting or defiant manner of the cock, as in the modern cocky. (Possibly also associated with cocked, Sc. cockit ‘turned up’, ‘stuck up’; but this would not explain the original form in -et.)]
Proud, ‘stuck up’; pert, saucy; brisk; in mod. dial. merry.
1537Latimer Let. Cromwell in Rem. (1845) 380 As for my lord of Hayles, I fear he will be too cocket now with his great authority and promotion. 1600Holland Livy iii. lxv. 133 They beleeved verily that their youth were too cocked and lustie [nimis feroces]. 1609–38Heywood Rape Lucrece Wks. 1874 V. 201 Her tongue not too lowd nor cocket. 1611Cotgr., Accrester, to wax cockit, grow proud..to strout it, or stand vpon high tearms. Ibid., Coquart, vndiscreetlie peart, cocket, iollie, cheerfull. 1674Ray N.C. Words 11 Cocket, brisk, malapert. 1883–88Huddersf. & Sheffield Gloss., Cocket, merry.
b. The following may be the same word: but cf. cock v.1 4, cocked ppl. a.1 (both of later date).
c1460Towneley Myst., Juditium 311 Gay gere and witles, his hode set on koket, As prowde as pennyles, his slefe has no poket.
▪ V. ˈcocket, v.1
[f. cocket n.1]
trans. To furnish with a cocket or custom-house certificate.
1343Rolls of Parlt. II. 138 b, Leynes nient cokettees ou nient custumees. 1344Act 18 Edw. III, 1 Ceux qui mesnent les legnes par dela saunz estre cokettez ou saunz paier Custume. [transl. Those that transport Wooll being not cocketted or without Custome.] 1697View Penal Laws 257 Neither shall any cause Wools to be cocquetted but in the owner's name.
▪ VI. ˈcocket, v.2 Arch.
Also 6 coket.
[cf. It. cocchetta dim. of cocca notch. Cf. also cock v.3 and coak.]
trans. To join in building by means of projection and notch, to mortise, joint.
1583Stanyhurst Poems (Arb.) 138 In brest of the Godesse, Gorgon was coketed hardlye, With nodil vnioyncted, by death, light vital amoouing. 1611Cotgr., Enclavé, inlocked, cocketed, mortaised, closed. 1644T. Thomas Dict. (Halliw.), As one joyst or stone is cocketted within another.
▪ VII. cocket, v.3|ˈkɒkɪt|
[Imitative.]
(See quot.)
1845P. Parley's Ann. VI. 263 The males [pheasants]..make a noise that in the country is called cocketting.
▪ VIII. cocket
obs. f. coquette. |