bittock

One I laid up and with the other I betook myself to enjoying the pleasures of friendship and conviviality and consorting with intimates and boon-companions and with the sons of the merchants, nor did I leave one but I caroused with him and he with me, and I lavished all my money on comrades and good cheer, till there remained with me naught; [FN#15] whereupon I betook myself to the friends and fellow-topers upon whom I had wasted my wealth, so perhaps they might provide for my case; but, when I visited them and went round about to them all, I found no vantage in one of them, nor would any so much as break a bittock of bread in my face.

Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

The agent who had this in possession, I was told, lived at the town of —, which I was informed, and indeed knew well, was distant five miles and a bittock, which may pass in a country where they are less lavish of their land for two or three more.

Chronicles of the Canongate 2008

One man he shaved for two scones and another for a bittock of cheese, and he was in demand, because there was no other barber on board.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

Shayth in our own land, so mayst thou eat there a bittock of bread.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

So one came down to him with a bannock and another with broken meats and third with a bittock of cheese and a fourth with a cucumber; and so on till he lap was full and he returned to his closet and laid the whole between her hands, saying, “Eat.”

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

This is but a bittock of mineral worth a thousand dinars; why dost thou style it a jewel?

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

We continued, however, to ride on without pause and even when night fell and overshadowed the desolate wilds which we traversed, we were, as I understood from Mr. Jarvie, still three miles and a bittock distant from the place where we were to spend the night.

Rob Roy 2005

I will give bittock of bread except thee no whit of food, thou yield thy person except thou yield thyself to me. '

The Life of Sir Richard Burton 2003

So one came down to him with a bannock and another with broken meats and a third with a bittock of cheese and a fourth with a cucumber, and so on till his lap was full and he returned to his closet and laid the whole between her hands, saying, "Eat."

Tehran Winter Naipaul, V.S. 1981

English ones, and the bittock might mean anything -- another Scottish mile or two, as the case might be.

Little Folks A Magazine for the Young (Date of issue unknown) Various