A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
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Quotation dates: 1475, 1560-1596
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Chak, v.1 ? Also: shak. [ME. chek, cheke, OF. eschequ(i)er. Cf. Chak,n. and Chek v.] tr. To check; to examine closely; to arrest or stop.c1475 Acts of Schir William Wallace viii. 817.
To chak the wache Wallace and x had beyin Rydand about 1560 Rolland Seven Sages 9081.
Baith day and nicht [thay] sall ȝow chak and espy To se gif thay can chalange ȝow with crime c1590 Fowler I 34/218.
This youngling boy [sc. Cupid] his puissance maid him prowe When in Thessalia he him [sc. Apollo] shakt and made him for to lowe1596 Dalr. II. 145/9.
Worde cumis … that the Inglismen … occupiet all straytes and narow passages, … of that mynd to chak and persue our flieris
