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First published 1963 (DOST Vol. III).
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Lok(k)it, p.p. and ppl. a. Also: lok(k)yt, lockit, -at, lo(c)ked, lookit, loocked. [P.p. of Lok v. : cf. Lok(k)it a.]

1. Locked up, fastened with a lock, in senses of the verb.(1) a1400 Leg. S. vii. 782.
The Jowis … In til a cawe me closit faste, Lokit & celyt at the laste c1420 Wynt. iii. 330.
To the yhettis off fors he past That lokyt wer and barryd fast 1613 Stirling B. Rec. I. 134.
Thair haill geir … that salbe fund … loket and fast within thair maisteris housis(b) 1493 Lindores A. 181.
That the common kyst … be brocht hale lokkyt as it was of befor 1538 Edinb. B. Rec. II. 87.
That the buithis … be haldin close lokkitt c1550 Rolland Ct. Venus ii. 894.
Ports and draw briggs, that lockit was richt sle, Scho did vnlok 1644 Aberd. B. Rec. IV. 15.
To sie … that the saids locks be put on euerie nicht and the haill ports sure lockit(c) 1653 Dunkeld Presb. I. 113 n.
That the door betwixt the new kirk and old be lookit and closit continually induring the tyme of their sermon 1659 Glasgow B. Rec. II. 430.
That the haill wickits of the mylnes be loocked at all convenient tymes(2) c1475 Wall. iv. 775.
Speid fast, … Wallace is lokit in a1540 Freiris Berw. 172.
Thir silly freiris two [Who] Wer lokit in the loft amang the stro 1600 Crim. Trials II. 199.
During all the tyme of the tumult, he wes lokkit in his awin hous 1600 Acts IV. 206/1.
Quhair this deponar abaid half ane hour … lokkit his allane 1619 Rec. Univ. Aberd. 279.
That he himself wes loked in and hade not the keyis 1630 Dumbarton B. Rec. 34.(3) 1494 Chart. (Reg. H.) No. 583.
The mone beand nowmerit & lokkit in ane boxis & deliuerit to the positoure 1588 Burntisland B. Ct. 7 June.
Ane firne kist … , Item ane cott [etc.] … lokkat thairine(4) 1591 Aberd. B. Rec. II. 71.
Patrick Pratt sall sit … bound to the croce of this burght, in the brankis lockit 1610 Crim. Trials III. 91.
Ȝour servand … schure af the irnes quhairin the said Johnne Greir was loked(5) 1546 Stirling B. Rec. I. 43.
The claspis … of irne … thaireftir to be put and lokit on hir for xxiiij houris

b. fig. Kept secure or hidden, as if in a locked receptacle. c1520-c1535 Nisbet III. 345/21.
Quhilk proposiciounn quha say denyit, to him is not only the epistill … bot alsua the hail scriptur sua lokit wp that [etc.] 1562-3 Winȝet I. 27/24.
Ane notable cause … worthy to be lokit in the memorie of thaim 1558-66 Knox II. 373.
Whitther it was the nychttis sleape, or a deape dissimulation lokked in hir breast, that [etc.]

2. transf. a. Fastened, enclosed, more generally. b. Fixed, made fast or immovable.a. 1535 Stewart 17006.
The Pechtis … To hors … tha drew in haist, In pans and pissen lokkit and weill laist 1513 Doug. x. v. 95 (Ruthven).
With renyt lyonys lokkit [v.r. ȝokkit] in ane schareb. 1549 Compl. 70/24.
Heffand ane beuk in his hand, the glaspis var fast lokkyt vitht rouste

3. White locked (? = compact) kail, see Kale n. ¹ (2), and cf. Loukit ppl. a.