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

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First published 1983 (DOST Vol. V).
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Quotation dates: 1375-1696

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Pik, Pyk, Pic(k, n.1 Also: picke; pe(c)k, peke, peik; pike. [North. ME. pik, pik(k)e, e.m.E. (north.) pyk (1571), OE. pic, ON. bik, OS. pik, Du. pek, pik, L. pix, pic-em. Cf. Pi(t)che n.1, Pix n.2Also in the mod. Sc. and north. Eng. dials.]

Pitch.For further examples, see Brinstane n. and Brintstane n.Also proverb., fig., and attrib. with -barrel, -hous, etc. Cf. pik tow with pikkit tow (s.v. Pikkit ppl. a.2, quot. for 1556–7), for which it may be erroneous.(1) 1375 Barb. xvii. 611 (E).
Pyk and ter als haiff thai tane
a1400 Legends of the Saints xix. 558.
Pyk [: it]
a1400 Ib. xxxii. 733.
& [gert] … Thare-in be done Blak pic & gert brynstane bla And undir it a fyre gert ma
1435 Exchequer Rolls IV. 619.
Quatuor barellis bituminis videlicet pik
1468 (c 1580) Edinb. B. Rec. I. 23. a1500 Henr. III. 151/35.
Put all thir in ane pan with pepper and pik … For the collik
c1475 Acts of Schir William Wallace viii. 775.
The Inglismen … Wp pyk and ter on feyll sowys thai lent
a1500 Buke of the Sevyne Sagis 891.
A caldron full of pik [: stik]
a1500 Bk. Chess 932.
Sum said … To byrne thaim boith in hat leid and in pik [: quyk]
1496 Treasurer's Accounts I. 284.
A pund of pyk for the pailȝoune threid
1501 Doug. Pal. Hon. 1318.
Pick
1503 Treasurer's Accounts II. 284.
For ane barrell pik to the keyll
1511 Edinb. Hammermen 73.
For pik & … hardis for to clos the lang kist with quhar the mys come in
1531 Bell. Boece I. 136. 1535–6 Master of Works Accounts (ed.) I. 189.
For the calfalting of ane part of the plat forme ruiff … with pyk and cannous
1540 Aberd. B. Rec. I. 170.
Necessaris requirit to the said schip … sic as … culueringis pulder … pyk and vapnis
1558–9 Edinb. B. Rec. III. 28.
The fute of this croce fillit with pik and other mettall … to cause it stand
1560 (c 1650) Dundee B. Laws 22.
Pick
1587 Carmichael Etym. 22.
Pix, pick
1622-6 Bisset II. 261/21.
Ane theif … salhave his heid schorne or schavin and melted pik … layd on his heid [etc.]
1680 Fawside Coal Compt 59.
Picke
1690 Lanark B. Rec. 237.
The tounes pick
1696 Foulis Acc. Bk. 190.(b) 1595 Skipper's Acc. (Morton) 70 b.
For pek and tar
1605 Edinburgh Testaments XL. 12 b.
Tua barrell of peck at viij li. the barrell
(c) 1589–1600 Skipper's Acc. (Morton) 66 a.
For barell peke
(d) 1601 Dundee Shipping P. 71.
For oyllei to the peik
(e) 1623 Edinburgh Testaments LII. 84.
Pike
(2) c1590 Fowler I. 52/132.
We … bothe together marked lyke and touched with one pik
(3) c1500-c1512 Dunb. xxxiv. 101.
The devillis als black as pik
1513 Doug. iii. viii. 131.
And rekand as the pyk
1513 Ib. v. xii. 56.
The drumly schour … Als blak as pyk … Fyllys the schippys
1567 Anderson Collect. Mary II. 170.
He appeared to be in ane greit effray and was black as any pik
proverb. a1568 Bannatyne MS 135 a/49.
Quha handillis pik or tar He is nocht haisty clene
a1605 Montg. Devot. P. v. 7.
Wald thow be clene? touch nather pick nor tar
c1590 J. Stewart 234/136.
Quho tuitchis pick vith it vill fyll thair hand
a1628 Carmichael Prov. No. 802.fig. 1585–6 Misc. Wodrow Soc. 441 (see Pol(l)ute v. 1).attrib. 1494 Treasurer's Accounts I. 252.
Pik barrell
1586–7 Ayr B. Acc. 156.
Expenssis sustenit in the burning of the witche of Barnweill … pyk barrellis, colis, rosat
1605–6 Montrose Treas. Acc. 2.1512 Treasurer's Accounts IV. 458.
To colis for the pik hous
1538 Treasurer's Accounts VIII. 160.
For ane pykpoit to the Sallamander
1612 Edinburgh Testaments XLVII. 8 b.
Tua irne pik pottis
1613 Edinb. B. Rec. VI. 105.
That na pik pots be hett within schips
1641-8 Skipper's Acc. (Smettone) 27.
Peik pot
1539–41 Master of Works Accounts (ed.) I. 282.
For ane pik tow to the caichpule price vi s.

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