A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1951 (DOST Vol. II).
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Durk, v. [f. Durk,n.] tr. To stab with a dirk.1599 Thanes of Cawdor 219.
Tua haling ilk ane of thame and the third standing befoir, durkit and slew the said umquhill Donald, Doull, [etc.] 1617 Melrose P. 273.
Ministers being durked in Stirling, … and murthoured in Galloway a1689 Cleland Poems (1697) 13.
For a misobliging word She'll durk her neighbour o'er the board Ib. 15.
Had it not been for the life-guard, She would have durkt him
