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Stak, v.¹ Also: stack, stakke, steak, stok. [ME and e.m.E. stacke(n (c1325), stakk(yn (Prompt. Parv.), sstakke (Cath. Angl.), stack (1573); Stak n.¹] tr.

1. To build into stacks for storage. a. Corn sheaves, hay, etc. Also absol. 1525 quot. may belong in another sense. b. Peats, etc.a. pres. 1513–14 Selkirk B. Ct. (ed.) 26.
Thai promittit to bring hame and stak the said corne c1575 Balfour Pract. 145.
He … may cause twa or thre of his nichtbouris … cum and justlie teind the samin, and thairefter leid and stak the teindis upon the ground of the landis quhair thay grew 1593 Acts IV 42/2.
Schireffis [etc.] … to arreist and mak inuentair of the cornis cattell guidis and debtis of the saidis rebellis, scheir win and stak the same 1633 Lithgow Poet. Remains 97.
Stakke 1644 E. Loth. Antiq. Soc. IV 32.
They most be oblischit to lied my teind cornis and to stack and bigit into the barneȝard wtout anay expensiis of me 1668 Boyd Fam. P. No. 288 (20 April).
To cutt the foddir and stack the saminabsol. 1525 Wigtown B. Ct. 165b.
Tua dais wage at he was stakand wyth him ilk day a plak … the tua dais staking [etc.] 1528 Ayrsh. Coll. 2 Ser. XI (1976) 99.
[1. Harvesting the Corn] … 2 men stakand and 4 men sarwand tham 1656 Edinb. Justices Peace 407.
A domestick, or inservant, who is able to perform all manner of work, relating to husbandry, viz. to plow, to sow, to stack, to drive carts, etc. 1693 Fountainhall Decis. I 548.
The lords found little matter of riot in the master's hindering his tenant to stack in that barn-yard and casting down some of the sheaffsp.t. 1596 Prot. Bk. J. Inglis 11 Oct.
The said Villem schoire the said cornis & careit thame awaye to Dunnemaid & stokit [sic] thame thair in his possessionep.p. 1488–9 Acta Conc. I 112/1.
v chalder of bere stakkit 1491 Acta Conc. I 205/2.
The cornez … sall be led and wonnyne be the said Thomas & stakkit in the ȝard of the hilhous of Reras 1528 Wemyss Chart. 276.
[The teind sheaves … to be led] stakit [and disponed … at the provost's … pleasure] 1533 Boece 121b.
Cornis stakkit or in barnys 1572 Reg. Privy C. II 160.
Thay … sall not … lift the saidis … cornis bot sall leif the samyn stakkit in heip upon the feildis or in grange untuicheit 1582 Crim. Trials I ii 109.
Within the barne-ȝaird of Horstoune, and coirnis standing stakkit within the samin c1650 Spalding I 81.
The cornes weill stakit began to moche [pr. mothe] and rot 1668 Kirkcudbr. Sheriff Ct. Deeds I 223.
[12 bolls bear lying in the barnyard of Rusco] stakit and unstakit with the fodder a1699 Skene Agric. MS (see Ruk v.²).
Stackitt(b) 1629 Milne-Home MSS 85 (see Stak n. 1 (2)).
Steakedb. 1603 Shetland Sheriff Ct. (ed.) 82.
Twentie four faddome peitis … to be inbrocht … in dew tyme of yeir and to be placeit and stakit at sic part as the fold sall appoynt 1645 S. Leith Rec. 58.
James Campbell is appoynted to receave the hether and cause stake it in James Jhonstones yard

2. To pile up, make a stack of (materials or goods, here, specif. timbers. Cf. vbl. n. (2)). 1618 M. Works Acc. (ed.) II 98.
For staking 1^m dailles in Leith v lib. 1656 Glasgow B. Rec. II 338.
That no … persoune stack any daillis on the calsay but sutche as ar to build thairwith presentlie and that all sutche as are alredie stackit thairone be removet