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First published 1986 (DOST Vol. VI).
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Quotation dates: 1459-1688
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Prik(k)at, Pric(c)at, Prik(k)et(t, n. Also: prick-, pryk-, pryc(k)- and -att, -it; prickcat, prikcett; preckatt, prekkett, (proket). [ME and e.m.E. priket(te, pryket(t, pricket(te, prikkett, also prekete etc. (Prekat n.), (1) ‘a buck in its second year, having straight, unbranched horns’ (c 1440) also med. (Anglo-)L. prikettus (13th c.), (2) a spike on which to stick a candle (c 1420) (not found in Older Sc.), (3) sense 2 below (a 1331), appar. f. Prik n.]
1. ? A buck in its second year: see etym. note above. Only in a place-name in Annandale.1459 Exchequer Rolls VI 551.
De firmis … alterius acre juxta Northfelde dicte Prikkatacre 1459 Ib. 554.
Et eidem, pro vasta acre Prikkatis 1460 Ib. 618.
Et pro vasta de Prykatisakyr
b. ? id. transf. in prikketis eris, a type of small candelabrum.1505 Glasgow Dioc. Reg. II 114.
Duo magna candelabra, et duo parua le prikketis eris
2. A (? smaller) type of candle.? Latterly only Sc. in this sense.(a) 1492 Treasurer's Accounts I 200.
For torchis and prycatis iij li. iiij s. 1498–9 Acts Lords of Council II 297.
Anent … twa chandillaris on the alter, with twa pricatis 1499 Exchequer Rolls XI 232.
Ac pro cera, thedis, prikatis 1508 Aberd. B. Rec. I xxi.
iiii pece wax, … maid in torchis and pricatis 1509 Edinb. Hammermen 67.
For iiij pricatis to the torches hedis 1518 Perth Hammermen 5.
Priccats 1525 Household Bks. Jas. V 71.
iiij libre prikattis, iiij libre rowis, price libre iij s. vj d. 1525 Ib. 77.
Item empt … .vj libre prickattis in candelis Dominis et Dominabus 1529 Linlithgow B. Ct. 8 Nov.
The said … factour sall licht twa far sergis with prikattis onne the hedis of thaim 1539 Glasgow Protocols Abstracts IV 118.
The said maister to uphald … ane pryckat of wax nychtlie byrneand … in middis of the sammyng altar 1541 Linlithgow B. Ct. 20 Dec.
That thar be lychttit twa prikcettis ilk haly day apone the said alter in tyme of hie mes 1546 Edinb. Hammermen 170.
For ane pund of priccattis at Witsoneday, iiij s. 1551 Treasurer's Accounts X 22.
To … Tod, walxmakker, for xij dosane of torcheis and x dosane of prikkettis making 1565 Edinb. B. Rec. III 210.
Prikettis 1572-5 Diurnal of Occurrents 103.
All the barronis and gentilmen bure priccattis of waix 1582 Edinb. D. Guild Acc. 125.
Ane quarter pound prikett of wax to sait beffoir the prowest in the kirk, ij s. vj d. 1593 Ib. 500.
For tynnyng of the flouris that haldis the prikettis in the kirk 1597 Household Bks. Jas. VI and Anne 6 Jan.
Fywe prickatis 1597 Ib. 1 Feb.
Sax prickcatis(b) 1539 Glasgow Protocols Abstracts IV 119.
Twa wax preckattis byrneand … abvne the lair of Jhonn Painter(c) a1639 Spotsw. Hist. (1677) 197.
Two ranks of barons and gentlemen … holding every one a proket of wax in their hands
3. A spire or a pinnacle. = Prik n. 3. This sense only Sc.(a) 1571–2 E. Loth. Antiq. Soc. VII 66.
The prikit on the … bellhous 1589 Dunferm. Hammermen 10.
The cok putt upon the prickit on the stiple-head 1596 Dundee B. Laws 145.
To cause edifie … ane steiple and pricket of aistler wark wpon the east newk … of the new tolbuith 1616–17 Ayr Common Good Acc.
[For] making of the cok vpoun the prickat of the tolbuyth, xx merkis 1616–17 Ib.
For sklating of the pricket of the tolbuyth … iij li. 1619 Garden Elphinstoun 2112.
The brige … With ports and prickets four 1629 Aberd. B. Rec. III 25.
Pryckit 1629 Ib. 24. c1650 Spalding I 127.
Johne Porter, wricht, rackleslie fell af of ane scaffold set for the pricketis of Maucher kirk 1652 Urquhart Jewel 196.
Erecting of prickets, barbicans and such like various structures 1654–6 Rec. Univ. Aberd. 602. 1684 Edinb. B. Rec. XI 114.
To the putting up of ane pricket of stone work of verrie handsome figures upon the tope of the grayfrier steiple and upon the tope of Herreots work steiple 1688 Inverness Rec. II 356.(b) 1534–5 Master of Works Accounts (ed.) I 128.
For the paynttyne of … all the prekkettis that the thanis standis on
