Also 7 coat(e. [f. COTE sb.1] trans. To put (animals, etc.) in a cote.
1630. in E. Peacock, N. W. Linc. Gloss., Not hauing a swine cote to cote up his swine in.
1630. J. Levett, Ordering of Bees (1634), 29. When you have any swarme that is set up, Coate it as soone as you can.
1688. R. Holme, Armoury, II. 134/2. All Sheep … when Lodged … are either Coated or Housed.
1747. Hooson, Miner’s Dict., T iv. If he give leave to them to Cote or Lodge any.
Hence Coted ppl. a.
1866. Jean Ingelow, Poems, 225. Or cooing of the early coted dove.
