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First published 2001 (DOST Vol. IX).
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(Stake,) Staik, n.2 [Stak(e v.1] Provision (for one's needs); property, etc. Supplying such provision. — 1592 Edinb. Test. XXIV 133b.
I leif to Issobell & Marioun Stewartis … the hous vpone the gaitsyde … salang as thai want ane better staik 1689 Account of Affairs of Scotland 46.
The greatest lawers that did oppose this, would have been content to run the hazard of the Parliaments censure, if they could but procured the king's commission and would have patted with the club to the boot, when they had got their own staik
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