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Quotation dates: 1375, 1438, 1494, 1586
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Stok(k)ing, Stokand, Stogging, Stogand, vbl. n.2 [Stok v.2] Thrusting with a sword or the like; stabbing. — 1375 Barb. xvii 785.
Men … with staffing, stoking, and striking. Thar maid thai sturdy defending ?1438 Alex. ii 7404.
In bath of sueit and swordis hewin, And sturde stokking and stampin 1494 Loutfut MS 132a.
Stokand [Lindsay MS stogand] with a poynt is litil laubour and litil strublis the body, and seldin is a man slane with ane ege strake 1586 Reg. Privy C. IV 60.
Tuicheing the foirsaidis personis allegeit cuming … to the said Niniane Rodgeris hous … stogging of his beddis … and committing of sindrie uthiris crymes
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