A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 2001 (DOST Vol. IX).
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Quotation dates: 1494, 1558-1670
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Stok, Stog, v.2 [ME stoke (Cursor M.), e.m.E. stock (a1625), OF estoquier (1306 in Greimas); Stok n. Cf. also Stek(e v.1]P.t. and p.p. forms stokkit and strokit are included at Stek(e v.1
1. intr. = Stob v.1 1, thrust (with a weapon), stab.(a) 1494 Loutfut MS 131b.
Fechtaris suld erar stok na strik [Lindsay MS stog nor straik] … for it is eithar to hurt with the stok na with the straik 1494 Loutfut MS 132a.
Quhen a man stokis [Lindsay MS stogis] with the point he haldis him al clos to gidder enarmyt that his aduersar may haf na wodouris of him(b) a1586 Lindsay MS 85 (see sense 1 (a) above). c1590 J. Stewart 31/55.
Quhyls stif thay stog, and quhyls thay bent about To schaw tham maisters of the fensing art
2. tr. = Stob v.1 2, to wound or pierce (a person, etc.).p.t. 1558-66 Knox I 361.
One of the bischopis sonis stogged throuch with a rapper one of Dundie 1576 Reg. Privy C. II 553.
He come upoun him with a drawin swerd, and … stoggit him … throw the oxtare 1593 Reg. Privy C. V 89. 1607 Reg. Privy C. VII 449.
[They] with drawin swordis, durkis, and daigaris barbarouslie stoggit the daskis of the said scoole 1612 Reg. Privy C. IX 440. 1630 Reg. Privy C. 2 Ser. III 419.
Stoged 1670 Reg. Privy C. 3 Ser. III 209.p.p. a1651 Calderwood IV 122.
The beds of my hous [were] stogged with swords, to have bereft my life
