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: 1460, 1597, 1678
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Nik, Ne(c)k, v.1 [e.m.E. nycke (1523), nick(e, knick.] tr.To nick, cut a notch in. —1460 Ayr B. Ct. 12 July.
That ony that war filit for pike of reset … suld be nikit with kyrk dure key apon the chek 1597 Reg. Privy C. V. 403.
[The said persons] maist shamefullie cuttit and nekkit thair lugis 1678 Argyll Justic. Rec. I. 99.
Ane … young mear haveing one of her ears cutt and necked beneath
