Sc. Obs. [? subst. use of fou FULL a.] A bushel.

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a. 1700.  Sir Patrick Spens, viii., in Child, Ballads, III. (1885), 25/2.

        I brought half a fou o good red goud
  Out oer the sea with me.

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1786.  Burns, Auld Mare, Maggie, 99.

                        For my last fou,
A heapit stimpart, I’ll reserve ane
                Laid by for you.

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