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First published 1963 (DOST Vol. III).
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Lukkin, ppl. a. Also: lukin, -yne, luckin, lu(c)ken. [Cf. ME. (Cursor M.) and e.m.E. (1523) loken and late north. e.m.E. lucken-brow'd (1684); strong p.p. of Louk v. Common in various uses in the mod. dial. Cf. also Loukit ppl. a.] Closed; joined. See also Lukkin-Buthis, -Gowane.

1. Of the hands or fists: Closed tight, clenched. Lucken-handed, fig., close-fisted. ?a1500 Dewoit Exerc. 69.
And than thai fell tratouris ran about ȝour precius body … strikand apoun ȝour blist face, and ȝeid with oppin handis and lukin newis 1632 Lithgow Trav. 469.
Mine armes being broake, my hands lucken and sticking fast to the palmes of both handes, by reason of the shrunke sinewescomb. 1689 Memorial for Prince of Orange, In Relation to the Affairs of Scotland 21.
Oh, sirs, sirs, but ye are … a lucken-handed and fast griping people

2. Of feet or hands: Joined by a membrane, webbed. Also comb. in luckin-futtit web-footed, luken-wayes in the manner of webbed hands or feet. a1500 Henr. Fab. 2797.
‘With my twa feit,’ quod scho, ‘lukkin and braid In steid of air I row the streme full still’ a1603 Anc. Prophecies 38.
The leid with the luckin [v.r. lukyne] hand is brought out of daies 15.. Law's Memor. (1818) 185 n.
[A monster] with wanschapen face with luckin hands and feitcomb. c1580-90 Rules of Health.
Except sic [birds] as ar luckin futtit and nureist vpon watteris 1684 Law Memor. (1818) 243.
A calf … having two heads, four fore legs, and four hind legs, two tails, all joyn together luken wayes in every part by themselves