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Quotation dates: 1479-1694
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Flak(k)et, Flacat, n. Also: flackat, -ait, flakat, flakot; flacket, flakett, flak(k)it, flacit; flaikat, -et; flekket, flecket(t, flekit, fleikate. [e.m.E. flacket, ME. flaket, ONF. *flaquet, flasquet, dim. of flasque.] A flask or flagon.(a) 1479 Acts Lords of Council 26/2.
Defalkand of the soume … the avale of iiij armes of the flakettis 1550 Reg. Great S. 102/2.
Duas ampullas stanneas lie flakkettis nuncupatas 1575 Edinburgh Testaments III. 318.
A glas flakket 1596 Fraser P. 229.
Ane tyn flakit 1643 Misc. Abbotsf. C. I. 182.
Ȝe being in the meantyme drying corne with ane hott stone one ane flakkit 1661 Buccleuch Mun. II. 314.
Ane old foure squaire tin flaket(b) 1502 Treasurer's Accounts II. 66.
For iiij flacatis of tyn … for the kyrk 1507 Ib. IV. 86.
For vj gret flacatis of glas to the King 1576 Orkney Oppress. 72.
Ane cag with twelff pundis of saip, with thre flakattis of came 1615 Haddington Corr. 288.
Ane gilt flacat for sweitt watteris 1630 Bamff Chart. 223.
Thrie beir glasses, elewin glassin flakots 1694 Pr. Inchmahome 161.
Of peuther flackats, 2(c) 1612 Edinburgh Testaments XLVII. 78 b.
Ane tyn flaikat 1631 Ib. LV. 34 b.
Certane glasis & flaikettes(d) 1575 Edinburgh Testaments III. 318.
Ane wand flekket of glas of ane pynt 1615 Ib. XLVIII 224.
Threttie sevin glas flekitis 1658 Ib. LXIX. 179.
Tuo quart fleikates
b. Attrib. with glas. 1619 Edinburgh Testaments I. 227 b.
Tua dosone of flecket glasis 1642 Ib. LX. 167.
Aucht glasis callit flakett glasis
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