? Obs. intr. Of tortoises: To copulate. Hence Cooting vbl. sb.
1667. H. Stubbe, in Phil. Trans., II. 500. The Tortoises … coot for fourteen daies together.
1699. Dampier, Voy., II. Index s.v. Turtle, When they Coot or Couple.
1750. G. Hughes, Barbadoes, 309. In cooting-time.
