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Quotation dates: 1508-1696
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Lokkat, -et(t, Lo(c)kart, n. Also: locket, -it, loikitt; loker(t, loquat. [ME. (north.) lokat (1354), -et, e.m.E. lockett (1562), MF. locquet, loquet, loket (1304); (mod. F. loquet latch), dim. of loc latch, lock (cognate with Lok n.1). The forms in -art, -er(t, are appar. exclusively Sc.]
1. A bar of metal (usu. iron) for holding in place the glass of a window.Also attrib. in Lokkat-naill.The precise meanings of this and of Glas-band are not clear. In one quotation given s.v. in OED., e.m.E. locket (Cambridge, 1598) appears to mean ‘one of the iron cross-bars of a window’.(a) 1532 Master of Works Accounts (ed.) I. iii.
To Forester smyth for wirking of the samen [iron] in glas bandis and lokkattis with uther blak bandis for reparing of the place 1554–5 Edinb. B. Rec. II. 355.
For thre lokketts and xxj small bands to it [the great window] 1557–8 Edinb. Old Acc. II. 86.
Coft twa glas bandis price iij s. viij d.; Item coft twa glas lockettis to the glas vyndockettis [sic] of the queir … iij s. vj d.(b) 1535–6 Master of Works Accounts (ed.) I. 187.
The irne werk furnist be William Hyll in lokartis and glasbandis, … for lxxiiii stanis maid irne werk in gret lokartis and glas bandis to the … lychtis 1535–6 Ib. 191.
To the said Thomas [a painter] for the haill irne wyndois cullering … in the … new werk togydder with the lokartis of the glas of the haill new werk [etc.] 1539–41 Ib. 283.
[Iron made into] glasbandis and lokertis 1541 Proceedings of Society of Antiquaries III. 163.
And to put in ilk lycht of the wyndois grete lokartis of irne for binding of glas thareto 1597 Edinb. D. Guild Acc. MS. 667.
Caik leid to be lokartis to the glassin windowis in the queir 1633 Master of Works Accounts (ed.) II. 379.
For ane lockart to the windock in the great hall(c) 1611 Master of Works Accounts (ed.) I. 338.
Twa glasbandes makeing of ane iron loker to the chapell ryall
2. Some fitting or accessory part for a culverin.e.m.E. locket (1562) = one of the metal plates or bands on a scabbard. 1508 Treasurer's Accounts IV. 121.
To George Bell, lorymar, for … viij tournay nales, tua gun rammis, tua lokketis for ane culveryn
3. A gold bracelet. 1696 Edinburgh Testaments LXXX. 211.
Ane pair of gold loikitts or bracletts for the armes
4. A small lock or clasp. 1652 Montgomery Mem. 318.
A gold chain with a loquat [pr. liquat] of gold
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