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First published 1983 (DOST Vol. V).
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Pik-, Pykit, -yt, ppl. a. Also: piyk- and -et. [ME. and e.m.E. piked (Manning), pykid (north., c 1447) pointed, tapering.]

1. Of a quarrel: Contrived, ‘picked’ (cf. Pike v.¹ 4). a1500 Henr. Fab. 2747 (Bann.).
Syne vexis him … With pykit querrellis 1572 Buch. Detect. (1727) 9.
With brawlings lichtly rysing … and querrellis usually pykit

2. a. Brought to a point; spiked at one end; pointed. b. Covered with spikes or the like; spiky. 1510 Reg. Great S. 755/2.
Per le pikit-cors et aquam de Nyth 1513 Doug. v. iv. 94.
Lang bolmys of tre Pykyt with irne Ib. vii. xii. 62.
Macis with pikit hedis 1532 E. Loth. Antiq. Soc. V. 29.
The standand stane utherwayis callit pykyt stane quhilk is the heid of Innerkent 1533 Dumfries B. Ct. 136 b.
Fra the piykit croce to the chapell of our lady of the casteldiks a1568 Montg. Bann. MS. 162 b/5.
God turnd owre the hors turd with his pykit staff 1590 Burel Pilgr. i. x.
The pikit porcapie 1603 Montgomery Mem. 247.
For ane plen pykit vyr, couerit vith heir, to ver on my head a1606 Dioscoridis Annot. 144 b.
The pykit thistel 1635 Justiciary Cases II. 324.
Quhilk straik … and wound was gevin … with ane battone or pyket stalff

3. ? Ornamented with small projecting decorations, as spangles or the like. Cf. Piking vbl. n.² 3.But perh. erron. for Pinkit ppl. a. 1548–9 Treas. Acc. IX. 280.
Of ane goun of hirris pikit about witht pulderinges