Sc. Obs. In 6 colpot, -pat. [f. col(e COAL + POT, round deep hole or excavation, as in peat-pot, etc.] = Coal-pit.
1535. Lyndesay, Satyre, 1809. In the Colpots of Tranent.
1572. Diurn. Occurr. (1833), 262. The regentis horsmen … brak all colpat wyndaris … sua that the said burgh should not be servit in elding.
