A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
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Ake-tre, Aik-tre, n. Also: -trie, -tree; ak, ack-tre [Ake n.] An oak-tree.1462 Peebles B. Rec. 148.
The sayd Dic Bulle sal gef a aktre tyll be a summer tyl the kyll 1490 Irland Mir. 256 b.
The achorne is changit be operacioun of nature in a gret ack tre 1513 Doug. iv. viii. 69; etc.
The ancyant aik tre, With hys byg schank 1577 Prot. Bk. A. Lawson 59 b.
The puill … quhair ane lytill ȝoung aik tre growis 1600-1610 Melvill 354.
Josua … setts upe a stan under an ake trie 1622-6 Bisset II. 163/8.
The Druedes … wirschipped … under greit aik tries 1623 Strathbogie Presb. p. xii.
His bairn … being stiff as an aik tree, and unable to move
