A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1983 (DOST Vol. V).
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(Pik,) Pyk, n.7 Altered from, or erron. for, Pipe n.1 1. —a1500 Peblis to Play 45.
The byg pyk blew 1579–80 Crail B. Ct. MS. 22 March.
That Troylus [the town minstrel] … sall nocht pas throw this burgh in playing with grett pyk or swesche vnder silence of nycht or vtherwayis
