A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1971 (DOST Vol. IV).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.
Quotation dates: 1549-1643
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Neukit, -yt, Newkit(t, -ed, Newikit, a. [Neuk n.] Having angular projections, ‘peaked’; -cornered. = Nukit a. —1549 Complaynte of Scotland 54/22.
Sum tyme it [the moon] aperit neukyt, heffand hornis —1584 Edinburgh Testaments XIV. 14 b.
Foure newkit blak bonettis for preistis 1596–7 Misc. Spald. C. I. 91.
Thair scho suld find ane peice of claitht, fowr newikit 1643 Edinburgh Testaments LX. 280.
Fower newkitt wand baskett
