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First published 1963 (DOST Vol. III).
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Lokkat, -et(t, Lo(c)kart, n. Also: locket, -it, loikitt; loker(t, loquat. [ME. (north.) lokat (1354), -et, e.m.E. lockett (1562), MF. locquet, loquet, loket (1304); (mod. F. loquet latch), dim. of loc latch, lock (cognate with Lok n.¹). The forms in -art, -er(t, are appar. exclusively Sc.]

1. A bar of metal (usu. iron) for holding in place the glass of a window.Also attrib. in Lokkat-naill.The precise meanings of this and of Glas-band are not clear. In one quotation given s.v. in OED., e.m.E. locket (Cambridge, 1598) appears to mean ‘one of the iron cross-bars of a window’.(a) 1532 M. Works Acc. (ed.) I. iii.
To Forester smyth for wirking of the samen [iron] in glas bandis and lokkattis with uther blak bandis for reparing of the place 1554–5 Edinb. B. Rec. II. 355.
For thre lokketts and xxj small bands to it [the great window] 1557–8 Edinb. Old Acc. II. 86.
Coft twa glas bandis price iij s. viij d.; Item coft twa glas lockettis to the glas vyndockettis [sic] of the queir … iij s. vj d.(b) 1535–6 M. Works Acc. (ed.) I. 187.
The irne werk furnist be William Hyll in lokartis and glasbandis, … for lxxiiii stanis maid irne werk in gret lokartis and glas bandis to the … lychtis Ib. 191.
To the said Thomas [a painter] for the haill irne wyndois cullering … in the … new werk togydder with the lokartis of the glas of the haill new werk [etc.] 1539–41 Ib. 283.
[Iron made into] glasbandis and lokertis 1541 Soc. Ant. III. 163.
And to put in ilk lycht of the wyndois grete lokartis of irne for binding of glas thareto 1597 Edinb. D. Guild Acc. MS. 667.
Caik leid to be lokartis to the glassin windowis in the queir 1633 M. Works Acc. (ed.) II. 379.
For ane lockart to the windock in the great hall(c) 1611 M. Works Acc. (ed.) I. 338.
Twa glasbandes makeing of ane iron loker to the chapell ryall

2. Some fitting or accessory part for a culverin.e.m.E. locket (1562) = one of the metal plates or bands on a scabbard. 1508 Treas. Acc. IV. 121.
To George Bell, lorymar, for … viij tournay nales, tua gun rammis, tua lokketis for ane culveryn

3. A gold bracelet. 1696 Edinb. Test. LXXX. 211.
Ane pair of gold loikitts or bracletts for the armes

4. A small lock or clasp. 1652 Montgomery Mem. 318.
A gold chain with a loquat [pr. liquat] of gold