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First published 1983 (DOST Vol. V).
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Quotation dates: 1678-1700
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(Pikk-,) Picking, Pyckine, vbl. n.2 [e.m.E. picking (1548), in this sense (1548–9).] Pilfering. = Piking vbl. n.2 — 1678 Mackenzie Laws & C. i. xx. 5 (1699) 109.
Picking or petty theft is not an atrocious crime 1700 Stonehaven B. Ct. in Black Bk. Kincardineshire 132.
Pyckine and small theft
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