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First published 1963 (DOST Vol. III).
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Lok(k)it, a.¹ Also: lok(k)yt, (-eth,) lockit, -et, -ed. [f. Lok n.¹ Also in the later dial.] Furnished with a lock or locks.But the distinction from Lok(k)it ppl. a. is not clear in every instance.(1) c1420 Wynt. viii. 1484.
Scho … gert it [the heart] be layd In till a cophyn off evore. … Annamalyd and perfytly dycht, Lokyt [v.rr. Lokkyt] and bwndyn wyth sylver brycht 1541 Treas. Acc. VII. 459; 1569 Inverness Rec. I. 180.
Witht ane kist lokkit and bandit to put her [a clock] in 1546 Aberd. B. Rec. I. 236.
Ane pakin creill lokit, with certane merchand geir in it 1589 Glasgow B. Rec. I. 137.
Twa kistis, ane lokkit, the vther with heck and stapill Ib. 148.
Ane sufficient guid dure and foir yett weill wallit and lokit 1638 9th Rep. Hist. MSS. 194/2.
Ane litle blak bandit box locket(2) 1507 Treas. Acc. III. 257.
For tua lokkit males to pak the … gere in to cum fra London 1525 Dundee B. Laws 544.
Thir contributionis … to be kepit and put in ane lockit box 1561 Admir. Ct. Bk. MS. 118 b.
The … wrangus spoliacioun … of his lokit bulget c1475 Wall. (1570) iv. 234.
Ane lokkit bar was drawin athort the dure 1571 Aberd. B. Rec. II. 5.
Ane lokkit bonat cais couerit witht selch skinnis 1574 Acts III. 92/2.
Put in a clois lokkit coffer a1586 Maitland Geneal. Setoun 34.
She … maid grit lokit almaries thairin 1577 St. A. Baxter Bks. 98 n.
[To be] putt in the comoun lokkit keyst of the said craft 1572-5 Diurn. Occurr. 325.
Thaj … tuik the haill wemen in ane place, and put thame in ane lockit hous 1580 Glasgow B. Rec. (M.C.) 125.
Fund in the wrang for taking away of ane lokit dur with key of ane stabill 1614 S. Leith Rec. .
Those wha hes locket seates within the kirk 1640 Bk. Carlaverock II. 502.
i loketh tronke 1668 Kirkcudbr. Sheriff Ct. Processes No. 20.
One lockit cloak bag(3) Applied to certain official registers of guilds or cafts which were fitted with clasps and locks. Among the earliest surviving examples is the Perth Guildry Book which is quoted in this dictionary and has entries from 1452. ‘Each of the crafts possessed a locked book in which to insert the entry of new masters and of apprentices. These books appear to have been all procured about the middle of the sixteenth century’ (Warden Dundee B. Laws 330). 1550 Edinb. B. Rec. II. 148.
That … thair be na maner of persoun maid burges nor freman except in jugement, and thair names put in thair lokkit buke in presens of the dene of gild 1553 (c 1650) Dundee B. Laws 16.
With certification … that the locked buik [of the guildry] sall be opned and thaire names blotted furth of the samen 1555 Edinb. B. Rec. II. 208.
Maister Robert Glen to be put burges and gild in the lokkit buik 1579–80 Ib. IV. 140.
Thatt the lokkitt gild buke be putt vp in the chairterhous 1583 Edinb. D. Guild Acc. MS. 186.
The statutis & lawis … in the auld lokkit buik of gildry 1593 Dundee B. Laws 345.
[Apprentices'] names to be inrollit in this present lockit buik [sc. of the Bakers] 1651 Canongate Hammermen in Bk. Old Edinb. C. XX. 92.
Thair lockit book quharin wes all thair acts and statuts for reiding of the traid