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Tikin(g, Tykin(g, Tayking, Teyking, n. Also: tiken, tykine, tykeing, tyiking, tycking, taykine, teckein. [17th c. Eng. (Manchester) tickin (a1661, north.), tiking (of Scotland) (1674), ticking (1676); Tik n.¹] The material used for making bed casings (Tik n.¹); material of a similar sort. Also pl.(a) 1583 Edinb. Test. XIII 119b.
xj elnis of Scottis tyking for ane bed price xl s. 1591–3 (1613) Sc. N. & Q. IX 116.
The best fedder bed and bouster, with downis of Flander's tykin, price xl lib. 1596 Edinb. Test. XXIX 257.
xx elneis of Scottis tyking of bedis price of the elne vj s. viij d. 1589–1600 Skipper's Acc. (Morton) 44b.
For tyking vii marke 1609 Hilderstoun Silver Mines I 89.
Tyking to be … bowsters for the Inglish warkmen 1612 Dunblane Test. III 188.
xviij elnes and ane half of vnscheppin tyking of bedis 1612 Edinb. Test. XLVII 183b.
Tykine 1612 Reg. Privy C. IX 727.
Lynning claithe of all soirtis and tykeing of beddis, the hundreth elnis, xl s. 1623 Orkney & Shetl. Test. I 93.
Tuentie codis of lether tykin pryce of the peice vi s. viii d. 1632 Inv. Newark 2a.
Of rownder tyking for comon beds 1640 Aberd. B. Rec. III 225.
Thrie thowsand elnes of hardin tyiking or saill canves for making thair tentis 1644 Edinb. B. Rec. VIII 399.
Harne and tycking to be tents and seckes 1649 Caldwell P. 102.
Ane new sheitt of tyking to the lard's horss 1684 Misc. Bann. C. III 330.
Materialls necessarie for the said work, such as fyne strong tykeing, of sufficient largenesse so that no seame be found in any picture 1686 Dunlop P. III 21.
Tiken 1696 Household Bk. Gr. Baillie 166.
Tikin 1697 Foulis Acc. Bk. 217.pl. 1707 Sc. Ant. XII 103.
Linnen cleath, tikings, dornick, and other things of lint(b) 1645 Edinb. Test. LXI 105.
viij cods of tayking four boysters and thrie tykis of beds 1646 Edinb. Test. LXI 340.
Taykine(c) 1646 Edinb. Test. LXI 358.
Teyking 1679 Argyll Justic. Rec. I 106.
Teckein of ane feather bed