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Quotation dates: 1513
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Pik-, Pyk-moyan(e, n. Pl. also moyance. [Pik, of doubtful meaning and origin; and Moyen n.2 Cf. Pik-shot.] A kind of culverin. "The four … ‘sakers’ were known as culverin pikmayane to the Scots," Gladys Dickinson 'Some Notes on the Scottish Army in the First Half of the Sixteenth Century' in The Scottish Historical Review XXVIII. 138. 1513 Treasurer's Accounts IV. 516.
Four culvering pykmoyance 1513 Ib. 517.
The first culvering pikmoyane drawin with xvj oxin
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