Now only Hist. or dial. Forms: see SWINE and COTE sb.1; also 6 swynne-coote, 7 swincoate, -coote; 5 swynce cote, 6 swynse-cote; 5 swynnen cote. [f. SWINE + COTE sb.1] A pigsty.
c. 1380. Wyclif, Sel. Wks., III. 277. Now þei [sc. abbeys] ben fallen doun, or maad swyn-kotis, stablis, or bark-houses.
c. 1440. Promp. Parv., 449/2. Schudde, hovel, or swyne kote. Ibid., 475/1. Sty, swynce cote (K. swynys howus, S. swyn cote, A. styy, swynnen cote).
1447. Bokenham, Seyntys (Roxb.), 291. In a taverners hous in a swyncote lay she Tyl mydnyht.
1546. Supplic. Poore Commons (E.E.T.S.), 78. Would ye commyt them to the kepyng & fedyng of such swynherdes as did not know theyr swynsecotes when thei sawe theym?
1557. Scotter Manor Rec., in N. W. Linc. Gloss., That euery man shall haue a sufficient swynne-coote.
1604. Manch. Court Leet Rec. (1885), II. 199. Iohn Chester hath a swinecoate at the backsyde of his house verie pestiferous.
1659. in Picton, L’pool Munic. Rec. (1883), I. 192. The swynecoate joyneing unto the Church wall be puled downe.
1730. P. Walkden, Diary (1866), 117. Spent the day at home in repairing our swine cote side, and painting it.
1830. trans. Aristoph., Wasps, 147. Philocleon. What is this? Bdelycleon. A swine-cote of Vesta.
1869. Lonsdale Gloss., Swine-cote, Swine-hull, Swine-sty, a pig-sty.
