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: 1512, 1582-1583, 1674-1680
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(Pik(k)-,) Picke-, Pyking, vbl. n.1 The action of smearing or coating with pitch, in the sense of Pik v.1 —1512 Treasurer's Accounts IV. 451.
For … hadder … for the piking of the boit 1582–3 Misc. Spald. C. V. 55.
For … peittis to melt the samen [pitch] and bring in the orlage … and piking thairof 1674 Sheriffhall Coal Accompt 14 Feb.
For reding the stair and pyking the same 1680 Fawside Coal Compt 68.
Pickeing —1679 Ib. 38.
For the stair pickeing
