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Ake, Aik, n. Also: ak; aike (ailk), ayk(e, aick, ayik, aek, eak, eaik. [Northern ME. ake, ak, OE. ác (whence also ME. ok, oke, ook). Cf. the early place-name Akedene (c 1204), repr. OE. áce-denu.]

1. a. An oak-tree.(a) c1420 Wynt. i. 343.
Ane ake wes na mare in hys hand Than now in owrys ane hesylle wand Ib. viii. 4701.
Thare by an ake deyd Erle Dawy 1513 Doug. iii. x. 46; etc.
The byg akis strekyng in the ayr thar croppys 1596 Dalr. I. 36/6.
Undir that earth ar fund gret stokis … of wondirful akes and vthir tries(b) c1475 Wall. v. 75.
The bryme Butler … Vndyr ane ayk, wyth men about him set Ib. 821.
Wallace retorned besyd a burly ayk 1513 Doug. x. vii. 149.
Ȝon harnes … Sall hyng apon ane ayk 1535 Stewart 56993.
Ane … weirman, wicht as ony aik c1590 Fowler 181/9.
Att the aeks and allers … My plaints I speire 1606 Crim. Trials II. 510.
Fyve hundreth grit aikis

b. Used collectively or generically. 1513 Doug. ii. vii. 98.
The woddis rerdis, bayth ayk, elm and fyr Ourturnys to grond 1565 Reg. Privy C. I. 403.
To cut doun . .elme, esche, and aik for stokkis 1612 Black Bk. Taymouth 371 .
Persones ... accusit for cutting of aik, asche, birk ... and sauch 1641 Acts V. 494/1.
In sua far as aike and birke wes wont to growe

2. The wood of the oak; oak timber. 1496 Treas. Acc. I. 322.
xxx^tj sparris, to mak a paraling of ak for the gunnys 1529 Reg. Episc. Aberd. I. 395.
Ane … brig … laid with brandaris of ayk, bulwark of aik and stain abowt the said brig 1519 Ib. II. 174.
Ane gret pres of aik and fyr, … ane grit lang kist of aik a1578 Pitsc. I. 251/16.
Scho was ten fute thik in the waill, cuttit jeastis of aik 1590 Aberd. B. Rec. II. 35.
Ane mait buird of ayik branderit 1603 Crim. Trials II. 416.
Ane grit fourenuikit battoun of aik 1635 Chapel Royal p. cxciv.
For certane sarking burd of Scotis ayk 1645 Aberd. Sheriff Ct. III. 43.
A taiffill of aike

3. Attrib. in ake bark, bed, burde, nail, wode. 1513 Doug. viii. x. 9.
Ane thyk ayk wod … Belappys all the said cuthill abowt 1555–6 Edinb. Old Acc. I. 192.
For ane hunder and ane half aik nalis, xijs 1579 Inverness B. Rec. 273.
Eaik and fyr bark 1595 Paisley B. Rec. 160.
The price of twa aik buirds 1635 Haddington Mem. II. 300.
Tuo standing aik beds