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Ake, Aik, n. Also: ak; aike (ailk), ayk(e, aick, ayik, aek, eak, eaik. [Northern ME. ake, ak, OE. ác (whence also ME. ok, oke, ook). Cf. the early place-name Akedene (c 1204), repr. OE. áce-denu.]

1. a. An oak-tree.(a) c1420 Wynt. i. 343.
Ane ake wes na mare in hys hand Than now in owrys ane hesylle wand
Ib. viii. 4701.
Thare by an ake deyd Erle Dawy
1513 Doug. iii. x. 46; etc.
The byg akis strekyng in the ayr thar croppys
1596 Dalr. I. 36/6.
Undir that earth ar fund gret stokis … of wondirful akes and vthir tries
(b) c1475 Wall. v. 75.
The bryme Butler … Vndyr ane ayk, wyth men about him set
Ib. 821.
Wallace retorned besyd a burly ayk
1513 Doug. x. vii. 149.
Ȝon harnes … Sall hyng apon ane ayk
1535 Stewart 56993.
Ane … weirman, wicht as ony aik
c1590 Fowler 181/9.
Att the aeks and allers … My plaints I speire
1606 Crim. Trials II. 510.
Fyve hundreth grit aikis

b. Used collectively or generically. 1513 Doug. ii. vii. 98.
The woddis rerdis, bayth ayk, elm and fyr Ourturnys to grond
1565 Reg. Privy C. I. 403.
To cut doun . .elme, esche, and aik for stokkis
1612 Black Bk. Taymouth 371 .
Persones ... accusit for cutting of aik, asche, birk ... and sauch
1641 Acts V. 494/1.
In sua far as aike and birke wes wont to growe

2. The wood of the oak; oak timber. 1496 Treas. Acc. I. 322.
xxxtj sparris, to mak a paraling of ak for the gunnys
1529 Reg. Episc. Aberd. I. 395.
Ane … brig … laid with brandaris of ayk, bulwark of aik and stain abowt the said brig
1519 Ib. II. 174.
Ane gret pres of aik and fyr, … ane grit lang kist of aik
a1578 Pitsc. I. 251/16.
Scho was ten fute thik in the waill, cuttit jeastis of aik
1590 Aberd. B. Rec. II. 35.
Ane mait buird of ayik branderit
1603 Crim. Trials II. 416.
Ane grit fourenuikit battoun of aik
1635 Chapel Royal p. cxciv.
For certane sarking burd of Scotis ayk
1645 Aberd. Sheriff Ct. III. 43.
A taiffill of aike

3. Attrib. in ake bark, bed, burde, nail, wode. 1513 Doug. viii. x. 9.
Ane thyk ayk wod … Belappys all the said cuthill abowt
1555–6 Edinb. Old Acc. I. 192.
For ane hunder and ane half aik nalis, xijs
1579 Inverness B. Rec. 273.
Eaik and fyr bark
1595 Paisley B. Rec. 160.
The price of twa aik buirds
1635 Haddington Mem. II. 300.
Tuo standing aik beds

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