A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1983 (DOST Vol. V).
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Quotation dates: 1500-1623
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Pi(t)che, n. Also: pitchte, pytche, picce. [e.m.E. and midl. and south. ME. pich, pych, pic(c)he, pisch, pitch(e, py(t)che, also peche (1496), corresp. to northern pik Pik n.1] Pitch, the substance. = Pik n.1 — c1590 Fowler I. 266/14.
Who lights there pitchte but from your flaxen fax 1581-1623 James VI Poems I. 127/128.
Picce 15.. Balcarres P., V. MS. 73.
Pytche 1614 Dundee Shipping L. 250.
Piche
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