A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
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Bek, late var. of Bake v. —1662 Crim. Trials III. 618.
Each day we wold water it, and then rost and bek it 1688 Stirling B. Rec. II. 331.
To the baxteris at the beking … of it
