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Saket, n. Also: sakket, sacket; sekat, secket. [Late north. ME sakett (once, c1450), 18th c. Eng. sacket (once), ONF *saquet, corresp. to OF sachet (11th c. in Greimas), dimin. of sac. Also in the mod. dial. Cf. Sek n.¹] A small bag or sack; a satchel. 1496 Acta Conc. II 39.
Ane lytil small saket and in it ledder and uther smal gere c1520-c1535 Nisbet Luke x 4.
Tharfor will ye nocht bere a sacket [W., P. sachel], nouthir scrippe, nouthir schonne 1549 Compl. 138/22.
Euerye man … baris tua sakkettis vitht hym. The fyrst sakket hyngis befor hym, vitht in the quhilk ar contenit al the vicis that [etc.] 1565 Misc. Maitl. C. III 179.
Maistir Randolphe deliverit to him thre sackettis full of money selit 1632 Lithgow Trav. x 449.
My linnen, letters and sacket was lying in my hostery a1646 Wedderburn Voc. (1709) 20.
Pone hic saccum, Lay down your sacket here 1680 Foulis Acc. Bk. 40.
To Maggie for the fouls a sacket of corne out of the ark(b) c1520-c1535 Nisbet Luke xii 33.
Mak ye to you seckettis [W., P. sachels] that waxis nocht ald, tresour that failyeis nocht 1553 Acts & Decr. VIII 344b.
To caus translatt the commissioun and vther writtingis contenit in ane sekat