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First published 1934 (SND Vol. I). Includes material from the 1976 supplement.
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‡BAKE, n.⁵ Dim. bakie.  A peat kneaded from the wet “dross” or dust of peats. [bek]Rxb. 1767 Craig & Laing Hawick Tradition (1898) 228:
Patric Hume, in Hawick Shiels, did cast peats and make bakes in Winnington Moss. Rxb. 1768 Session Papers, Buccleugh v. Turnbull etc. (10 March) 12:
Winnington-moss, where no Bakes were allowed to be made, either by Hawick People or others.Gall. 1803 Dr Walker in Trans. Highland Soc. of Scot. II. 124:
When brought to a proper consistence, a woman, on each side of the line, kneads or bakes this paste, into masses, of the shape and size of peats, and spreads them in rows on the grass. . . . From the manner of the operation, these peats are called Bakies.Gall. 1824 MacTaggart Gallov. Encycl. 39:
Bakies, or Baked-peats, peats baked with the hand; not cut with spades.Wgt. 1933 (per Kcb.¹):
Bakie, common in Port William 50 years ago.