gowpen

A lodging, such as it was, was readily granted to them in some of the out-houses, and the usual awmous (alms) of a handful of meal (called a gowpen) was scarce denied by the poorest cottager.

The Antiquary 1584

(called a gowpen) was scarce denied by the poorest cottager.

The Antiquary 1845

The lock, signifying a small quantity, and the gowpen, a handful, were additional perquisites demanded by the miller, and submitted to or resisted by the

The Monastery 2008

The farmer’s dame lacked her usual share of intelligence, —perhaps also the self-applause, which she had felt while distributing the awmous (alms) in shape of a gowpen (handful) of oatmeal to the mendicant who brought the news.

Chapter VI 1917

You come here with a very singular story, and nowt to back it but a glib tongue and your smooth, innocent-like young face -- and you go back hame with a heaped gowpen of gold, and mair in the kist ahint of that.

Copper Streak Trail Eugene Manlove Rhodes 1901

The _lock_, signifying a small quantity, and the _gowpen_, a handful, were additional perquisites demanded by the miller, and submitted to or resisted by the _Suckener_ as circumstances permitted.

The Monastery Walter Scott 1801

The farmer's dame lacked her usual share of intelligence, perhaps also the self-applause which she had felt while distributing the awmous (alms), in shape of a gowpen (handful) of oatmeal, to the mendicant who brought the news.

Guy Mannering, Or, the Astrologer — Volume 01 Walter Scott 1801

The farmer's dame lacked her usual share of intelligence, perhaps also the self-applause which she had felt while distributing the awmous (alms), in shape of a gowpen (handful) of oatmeal, to the mendicant who brought the news.

Guy Mannering, Or, the Astrologer — Complete Walter Scott 1801

(alms), in shape of a gowpen (handful) of oatmeal, to the mendicant who brought the news.

Guy Mannering — Complete Walter Scott 1801

Besides, a bag was suspended in the mill for David Ritchie’s benefit; and those who were carrying home a melder of meal, seldom failed to add a gowpen [Handful] to the alms-bag of the deformed cripple.

The Black Dwarf 2004