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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
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Bukket, Bukkat, n. Also: buket, bucket, bukk-, buckit; bukat, bukcat, buckat, buc(c)at; bokett, bowkat, buikett. [ME. bucket (c 1300), bukket, buket, also bocket, boket, OF. buket, buquet, tub, pail.] A bucket.(a) 1263 Exch. R. I. 14.
In vna buket [ad] puteum, cum vna cabla a1500 Henr. Fab. 2382.
Ane draw wel … Quhar that twa bukkettis … hang 1532 M. Works Acc. II. 67 b.
For ane bukket, xij d. 1537 Treas. Acc. VI. 299.
Item, for barrois and bukettis to the stabill, vij s. 1581 Sat. P. xliii. 16.
Lyke draw well bukkets dowkand vp and doun 1591 Edinb. D. Guild Acc. 461.
For girthing thir twa buckettis [for the well] 1629 M. Works Acc. XX. 30 b.
Ane balk and soull for ane grit buiket of the well 1640 Ib. XXIX. 104 b.
For twa bukitts with iroun girthis … thairto 1669 Glasgow B. Rec. III. 114.
Ane hundreth lether buckitis 1678 Ib. 252.
The buckit monye … to be applyed for buying of new buckitis(b) 1512 Treas. Acc. IV. 466.
xxx bukkattis 1553–4 Edinb. B. Rec. II. 285.
For ane new bukat and ane auld 1556–7 Edinb. Old Acc. I. 210.
For twa mekle bukkattis with ane small walter tube 1565 Prot. Bk. J. Scott 26.
At the draw wall twa bukcattis and ane corde 1570 Peebles B. Rec. 320.
Tubbis, standis, bukkatis 1643 Glasgow B. Rec. II. 55.
xij s. moneye deburst for the twa doossane of lather buccats 1669 Aberd. B. Rec. IV. 258.
The counsell ordaines the dean of gild to cause bring from Holland tuentie buckats for the vse of the toune vpon accidents of fyre(c) 1512 Treas. Acc. IV. 454.
For bowkatis for the greit schip 1581 Mar & Kellie MSS 35.
Ane bokett gird with iryne 1582 Edinb. D. Guild Acc. 124.
For ane buikett to [the slaters]

b. Attrib. with fisching, money, pot. 1603 Reg. Great S. 496/1.
Cum potestate effodiendi lie coil-pottis, … lie bukkit-pottis et cetera … aisiamenta 1605 Glasgow B. Rec. I. 472.
To Mr John Ros for his expenssis in rydling commissioner to remove the bucket fischeing in the wast 1660 Ib. II. 455.
Quhat is restand undeburst of the buket monye 1669 Ib. III. 114.
The merchand and craftis hospitallis hes the benefeit now of the haill buckit monye