cotts

The bier on which the corpse was deposited, was a frame of wood like that in which the sea-beds, called cotts, are placed, with a matted bottom, and supported by four posts, at the height of about five feet from the ground.

A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 12 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time Robert Kerr 1784

It's a revolutionary way to make informed consumer purchases that enable consumer "buy-cotts" for ethically made products.

Bama Athreya: Smart Phone App-tivism: How You Can Avoid Slave-Made Products This Holiday Season Bama Athreya 2010

It's a revolutionary way to make informed consumer purchases that enable consumer "buy-cotts" for ethically made products.

Bama Athreya: Smart Phone App-tivism: How You Can Avoid Slave-Made Products This Holiday Season Bama Athreya 2010

It's a revolutionary way to make informed consumer purchases that enable consumer "buy-cotts" for ethically made products.

Bama Athreya: Smart Phone App-tivism: How You Can Avoid Slave-Made Products This Holiday Season Bama Athreya 2010

It's a revolutionary way to make informed consumer purchases that enable consumer "buy-cotts" for ethically made products.

Bama Athreya: Smart Phone App-tivism: How You Can Avoid Slave-Made Products This Holiday Season Bama Athreya 2010

Economic localism, in the sense of going beyond Freed Market predictions and actively favoring entrepreneurial and activist promotion of local forms of production and distribution in the here and now LETS, CSAs, food miles, Think Local pro-cotts, blah blah blah, as somehow better for human beings and other living things than conventional multinational corporate bidniz models.

Open thread on: localism, decentralism, anarchism, thick conceptions of libertarianism, and the U.S. Constitution 2009

= Cotty Wool =, or cotts, is wool from sheep that have been exposed to severe weather and lack of nourishment, and for these reasons have failed to throw off the yolk necessary to feed the wool.

Textiles For Commercial, Industrial, and Domestic Arts Schools; Also Adapted to Those Engaged in Wholesale and Retail Dry Goods, Wool, Cotton, and Dressmaker's Trades

The Island was immediately surrounded by soldiers, who passed the night there, and threatened to fire the neighbouring cotts.

Notes and Queries, Number 06, December 8, 1849 Various

All the idlers by this time were out of their berths and cotts; the signs of those who "slept in the country," as it is termed, or who were obliged, for want of state-rooms, to sling in the common apartment, having disappeared.

The Two Admirals James Fenimore Cooper 1820

If I had your poetical talent I wod have shamed the parties concerned out of their quibbling before this & they richly deserve to be handed down to remembrance, You may well say you shd have supposed it had been the Title to a great Estate that was in discussion & not a few cotts — I am disgusted beyond measure at the unnecessary & ill-placed obstacles thrown in the way but it has not been in my power to do more than has been done.

Letter 371 2009