Forlot, Forthlot

A measure of grain used throughout Scotland at present—query *fourthlot*. See Jamieson's *Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language*. "*Firlot; Fyrlot; Furlet*.—A corn measure in S., the fourth part of a boll. "Thay ordainit the boll to mat victual with, to be devidit in foure partis, *videlicet*, foure *fyrlottis* to contene a boll; and that *fyrlot* not to be maid efter the first mesoure, na efter the mesoure now usit, bot in middill mesoure betwixt the twa."—*Acts Jac.* l. 1526. c. 80. edit. 1566. "—Ane furme, ane furlet, Ane pott, ane pek." Bannatyne *Poems*, p. 159. Skinner derives…