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: 1498, 1576-1577
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(Pikkilling,) Pekyllyn, Peikling, vbl. n. [MDu. (a 1479), MLG. pekelen. Cf. 17th c. Eng. pickling (1691), also Pikkill v.2] The action of putting in pickle. —1498 Halyb. 248.
For pekyllyn and copin [of two barrels of trout] 1576–7 (1587) Ayr B. Acc. 141.
[For] salt peikling and heiding of thaim [herring]