In Guernsey, 14ᵗʰ? – 19ᵗʰ centuries, a unit of dry capacity used for wheat, = 816 cubic inches.
The word is a diminutive of cabot.
Frederic Godefroy.
Lexique de l'ancien Français.
Paris: 1901.
William Berry.
The History of the Island of Guernsey, part of the ancient Duchy of Normandy,
from the remotest period of antiquity to the year 1814,...
London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, etc, 1815.
Page 118.
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