A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
Hide Quotations Hide Etymology
About this entry:
First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.
Cokkit, ppl. a. [e.m.E. cocked (c 1650), f. cock v.] Of a match: Placed in the cock of a fire-arm. —c1650 Spalding I. 246.
The soldiouris and mvnitioun landit, and wes convoyit wp to the castell with ane strong guarde, haueing cokkit luntis
