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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
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Bikker, Bicker, n.1 Also: bikkar, bi(c)kar, biccar, bykyr, bycker, beckar. [ME. biker (1348), bikyr, bykir (also becure), ON. bikarr.] A beaker, drinking-cup (or similar vessel). Also attrib. with lug.c1500-c1512 Dunb. vi. 47.
And I hecht to teme a bicker [M. beckar] 1546 Aberd. B. Rec. I. 236.
Item, viij bykyris, the price of the pece iij d. 1562 Will A. Betoun.
Ane treying cope … with x aill coppys and ane bycker of tree 1563 Peebles B. Rec. 289.
Ane litill bikker callit ane salt fat 1563–4 Prot. Bk. T. Johnsoun 138.
Thre bikkeris, ane of thame with ane cover 1576 Oppress. Orkney 72.
Ane cag … by crusis, … coppis and bikkaris 1591 Crim. Trials I. ii. 251.
The girth of ane grit bikar 1599 Black Bk. Taymouth 334.
Off bickaris 1616 Edinb. Test. XLIX. 78 b.
Tuentie foure coupis and bikkaris of silwer Ib. 81 b.
Biccaris of silwer —1595 Duncan Appendix.
Ansa, a bickerlug
