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A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)

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First published 1951 (DOST Vol. II).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.

Quotation dates: 1508-1513, 1570-1628

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Forkit, Forkyt, a. [ME. forkyd, forked (a 1300).] Forked; parted into forks. —1508 Reg. Episc. Brechin II. 159.
Decem solidi de le forkit akir
1513 Doug. ii. xi. 52.
In forkyt ways
1570 Satirical Poems xxii. 54.
The forkit clauer besyde the croce that sittis
1580-92 James VI Lusus R. 3.
If on the forkit hill I treadd
1628 Master of Works Accounts XXI. 12.
For making ane forkit craw yrone

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