Obs. Also coode. Pitch, cobbler’s wax.
1358. Ord., in Riley, Mem. Lond. (1868), 301. Code, rosin, or other manner of refuse [footnote litour].
c. 1440. Wyclif, Ex. ii. 3 (MS. Bodl. 277). Sche took a segge leep, and clemede it with coode [1382 glewishe cley, 1388 tar].
c. 1440. Promp. Parv., 85. Code, sowters wex [H. P. coode].
c. 1485. Digby Myst. (1882), II. 103. Be-paynted with sowters code.
