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(Poke-,) Poik-, Pokmantie, n. Also: pockmantie, -manty, pokmanté, poakmantie; packmantie. [Sc. altered form, after Poke n. and, apparently, Pak n.1 of Portmanteaw. Cf. Pokemantle.] A travelling-bag or portmanteau. Also attrib.(a) 1581 Treasurer's Accounts MS 67 (2) b.
Reid crammesie stemming tobe ane pockmantie to his hienes, … reid silk to sew barris … on the portmanteaw 1621 Maxwell Mem. I 325.
For ane pokmantie … xlij s. 1621 Edinburgh Testaments LI 62 b.
Thretteine pokmanteis at tuentie four schillingis the pece 1643 Ib. LX 236 b.
Twa dossane and twa pockmanties estimat to xxxj lib. iiij s … ., nyne meikle pokmanties c1679 Rutherford in Kirkton Hist. 79.
Will thou make Christ a pack-horse … how long is it since he behoved to cary thy pockmantie? 1680 Hay Fleming Six Saints II 206.
The minister … left his awine horse with ane pokmantie one him a 1700 Bk. Pasquils (1868) 190.
Here lyes my honest old auntie, Whom Death has put in his pockmantie(b) 1575 Dumfries B. Ct. 25 Oct.
Ane poikmantie … price iiij s. 1606 Tailor's Acc. Bk. 54.
vij quarteris of claith to be ȝour honour ane poikmantie … , … grene threid to sew on the bordis of this same poikmantie with(c) 1638 Row Red-Shankes Serm. (1642) 2 b.
Our adversaries … were posting to Rome with a poakmantie behind them, and what was in their poakmantie trow ye?(d) 1584 Sempill Sat. P. xlv. 564.
How that his packmantie was maed I think it best for to declairattrib.(1) 1620 Reid Auchterarder 42.
The sorrel naig, the pockmanty naig and the horse named [etc.] c 1634 Sc. Ant. VI 60.
Twa blak neagis and ane pokmantie naige(2) 1643 Edinburgh Testaments LX 270 b.
Tuelff ellis of pockmantie cloith 1652 Ib. LXV 244.
xxviij ellnes pockmantie stuffin
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