DSL - DOST   Daker, Dacker, v.¹ Also: daiker.  [Of obscure origin. The same forms in Eng. dial. (1668-) and later Sc. differ widely in meaning.] tr. To search or ransack (a house) for stolen goods or other illegality. Also Dakering vbl. n.
    Also with a person, or the goods sought for, as object, and absol., to make search. (a)  Ye ar indytit ... for the thifteous steling, and consaling of tua scheip ... & the officiar ... commandit to daker your hous thairfor; 1595 Misc. Spald. C. II. 129.  Gif the officiar ... had bene sufferit to dakerit the rest of your hous; Ib. 130.  He went and daikered their house and could not find it [sc. the sheep]; 1700 Ib. III. 185. (b)  That Georg Dewiny and Alexander Duthie ... sall ... as officiars ... dacker, searche and seik all stowin guids; 1622 Urie Baron Ct. 46.  The bailyie, haiffing causit searche, seik, and dacker the duelling housis ... and haiffing fund certane new slayne blak fisches; 1634 Ann. Banff. 251.  Ane brusche, ane comb, & certane wthir geir all fund with eftir dackering and searsching; 1637 Ib. I. 78.  Peter Broune ... offered that the woman should be dackered, and made a sham kind of dackering after the money wes gone; 1700 Misc. Spald. C. III. 183.

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