[Earlier and N.Fr. cabot, mod.F. chabot, f. Romanic cabo, capo head + -OT.]
† 1. A fish: the Bull-head or Miller’s Thumb.
1611. Cotgr., Poisson royal, the white Cabot.
2. A measure of dry goods in the Channel Islands; cf. the Sc. CAP.
1835. H. D. Inglis, Channel Isl., 124. In Jersey … sixteen cabots per perch, has been known to be obtained.
1862. Ansted, Channel Isl., IV. App. A (ed. 2), 566. In Jersey, the measure of dry goods is the cabot, or half-bushel … containing 43 lbs. 7 ozs. of distilled water.
