Sc. Obs. Also 6 ioucatte, iowcat, iucat. [Deriv. unknown.] An obsolete Scotch measure, the same as a Scotch gill.
1587. Sc. Acts Jas. VI., c. 114. Be just calculation and comptrolment, the samin extended to 19 pintes, and a jucat. Ibid. They therefore … decernis and ordanis the Firlot to be augmented,… And to conteine nine-tene pintes, and twa Ioucattes.
1892. P. Cochran, Mediær. Scotl., viii. 164. [In] 1587 … the Commissioners discovered that an error had been made in 1457 with regard to the contents of the firlot which should contain 19 pints and a ‘jowcat’ or gill.
