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COTE

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a term used in coursing, to express the advantage one greyhound has over another when he runs by the side of it, and, putting before it, gives the hare a turn. See Coursing.

Cote-Gare, a kind of refuse wool, so clung or clotted together that it cannot be pulled asunder. By 13 Rich. II. stat. i. c. 9. it is provided, that neither denizen or foreigner make any other refuse of wools but cote-gare and villein. So the printed statute has it; but in the parliament-roll of that year it is cod-land and villein. Cot, or cote, signifies as much as cottage in many places, and was so used by the Saxons according to Verfegan.