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First published 2002 (DOST Vol. XI).
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Quotation dates: 1558-1588, 1654-1678
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(Unthekit,) Untheikit, -ed, -thecked, Onthekit, ppl. adj. [Thekit ppl. adj. Cf. e.m.E. vnthatched (1570).] Unroofed; not covered over (with a specified material). —(a) 1588 Exchequer Rolls XXI 405.
[A house] unoccupyit becaus it is rwynus and untheikit 1675 Melrose Reg. Rec. II 418.
He had … a pair of old creills and tua mid tries lyeing within ane untheiked houss 1678 Craven Ch. in Orkney 76.
[The church of Rousay] was unthecked, and so like to become ruinous — 1654 Edinb. B. Rec. VIII 337.
Thair is a pairt of the south ile of the kirk at the Trone untheikit with copper —(b) 1558 Inverness Rec. I 23.
[They] hes ondertane and sall thek it quhilk is onthekit on the north syd of the sayd moder kyrk
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