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First published 1952 (SND Vol. III). Includes material from the 1976 supplement.
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Quotation dates: <1700, 1700, 1768, 1869, 1920
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‡DACKER, Daker, Daccar, v.2, n.2
1. v. To search (a house or person) for stolen goods, to search a house by official warrant (Mry.1, Abd.7 1925). Vbl.n. dackering.Sc. 1700 in Hist. Papers Jacobite Period (New Spalding Club 1895) I. 19:
With full power to him likewise to dacker and search for all such stollen goods.Bnff. c.1700 in J. F. S. Gordon Chrons. of Keith (1880) 40:
Offered the woman should be dackered and made a sham kind of dackering after the money wes gone.Bnff. 1869 W. Knight Auld Yule 40:
The miry scummin' o' the multitude, That wad hae dacker'd hell for greed o' drink.Abd. 1768 A. Ross Helenore 85:
For the Savilians will but doubt be here, An' dacker for her as for stollen geer.
Hence dackerer, daccarer, an official searcher under a sheriff's warrant.Abd. 1920 A. Robb MS.:
Ae mannie had steal't a tubfu' o' fish. Fan the dackerers cam to dacker his hoose he had seen them comin, so he set the tub and the fish to the back o' the door.Kcd. 1699 in J. Anderson Black Book Kincardineshire (1843) 98:
She having put in two legs of the said mutton into the pot when the daccarers came in.
2. n. An official search.Mry. 1690 W. Cramond Court Bks. Regality of Grant (1897) 11:
After a heastie daker Alexander Grant found in the defender's house ane fresh mutton bouk.
