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

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First published 1963 (DOST Vol. III).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.

Quotation dates: 1400-1420, 1475-1578, 1630-1685

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Halkin(g, vbl. n. Also: halkeing, -yng, hawlkyn. [Common variant of Hawking vbl. n.] The action or practice of hawking; the right of hawking; a hawking-ground.(1) c1400 Troy-bk. i. 279.
Quhar-throw of halking and of hunting Haboundanly thar had the kyng
c1420 Wynt. i. 1354.
Thare huntyng is … And richt gud hawlkyn on rywere
1489 Treasurer's Accounts I. 127.
To the King … quhen he raide to Lauder to the halkin
1508 Reg. Privy S. I. 241/2.
Gif … ony personis usis halking, hunting, stalking, … in the sammyn [forest]
1558-66 Knox II. 373.
Johne Knox … met hir at the halking be-weast Kinross
a1578 Pitsc. I. 163/15.
He wssit mekill huntting and halking with wther gentill men pastyme
1657 Mure Hist. Rowallane 256.
This Sr Wm … delyted much in hounting and halking
(2) 1475 Lennox Mun. 104.
To be haldin … with halkyng, huntyng, fowlyng, fyschin [etc.]
1483 Grant Chart. 35.
Wyth … fysching, fowlynde [sic], halkyng
c 1536 Rec. Earld. Orkney 222.
With … halking, hunting, foulling, fisching in fresch and salt watter
1630 Skene Mem. 214.
With halking, hunting, court plent, heryeld [etc.]
(3) 1537 Liber Dryburgh 283.
In … pasturages. halkinges, huntinges, fischinges [etc.]
1641 Peebles B. Rec. 102.
With watteris, fischinges, huntinges and halkinges in swa far as perteinit to … King James the ffourt and his predicessores

b. Attrib. with bagg, coyt, glove.1489 Treasurer's Accounts I. 144, Ib. 186.
For thre elne of veluus to be a halkin coyt to the King vndir his galbert
1663–6 Household Bks. Archb. Sharp 16.
For a halking bagg for my Lord night graith
1663–6 Ib. 17 b.
A halkeing bagg
1685 Proceedings of Society of Antiquaries LVIII. 356.
A pair of halking gloves

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