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Sek(k)in(g, Saken, n. Also: sekein, seckin(e, -ing, sakin, -one, sack(e)ing. [North. e.m.E. seckynge (1589), 18th c. Eng. sacking (1707); Sek n.1 Cf. OE sæccing ‘bed’. Also attrib.] Sacking, sackcloth, the material.(a) 1607 Edinburgh Testaments XLII 244b.
Ten elns of sekein price of the elne v s. vj d. 1608 Tailor's Acc. Bk. A 70.
Fyne seking to pit the cloathis into 1610 Hilderstoun Silver Mines II 107.
Tackettis to naill the sekking on the weshing table 1608-13 Hilderstoun Silver Mines II 109.
Seking 1611 Brechin Testaments II 141.
Ane peice of sekkin 1619 Master of Works Accounts (ed.) II 134.
For xvi elnes of seckin at xiii s. elne 1690 Foulis Acc. Bk. 119.
Secking 1703 Foulis Acc. Bk. 313.
To buy seckine for sand pocks(b) 1618 Master of Works Accounts (ed.) II 88.
xxiiii eln and a half of saken 1618 Master of Works Accounts (ed.) II 88.
Sakin 1623 Fraserburgh Kirk S. 149b (12 March).
For foir elnns of sacking to be ain habeit for adultereris in tym of thair publict repentance 1679 Fawside Coal Compt 39.
Item 9 ells sackeing for panw. sacks 1681 New Mills Manuf. lxxxviii.
To … hartcloath and sacking for 4 dressing boardscomb. 1606 Edinburgh Testaments XLI 253 (see Gainheckling n.).
Sacking claith 1610 Hilderstoun Silver Mines II 109.
Sevin elnis of sekking tueill for the weshing tables at x s. the eln 1707 Stitchill Baron Ct. 158.
8 ells of sacking-cloth 1672 Edinburgh Testaments LXXIV 203.
Some sakone neadles
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