_Forlot, Forthlot_ (No. 20. p. 320.).--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 it from A.-S. _feower_, quatuor; and _lot_, _hlot_,
portio (the fourth part); Teut. "_viertel_."