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Stekin(g, Steikin(g, vbl. n.² Also: stekyng, -yne, steeking. [Stek(e v.²]

1. The action of the verb in senses 1, 2, 2 d, 3 (also, specif. the caulking of (a ship)).(1) c1475 Wall. ix 1634.
The slyp … Cumryt the ȝet, stekyng thai mycht nocht ma 1530 M. Works Acc. (ed.) I 33.
For … ii gret irne sloittis … to the closyng and stekyng of the samyn yettis 1566 Prot. Bk. Thomas Johnsoun 98.
[The arbiters gave possession … by putting him] in the housis and stekin the dorris one him 1577–8 Glasgow B. Rec. I 66.
Steiking of her durris and nocht suffering … officiaris entir thairinto 1591 Monimail Reg. Ct. 10 April.
The steiking of the styllis 1655 Glasgow B. Rec. II 323.
The charge of the keiping of the kie of the wall at the Barrasyet, and for opening and steiking the sam at convenient tymes 1695 Hector Renfrewshire Rec. II 97.
Threatened him … by steeking the door and saying by God ye shall doe itproverb. a1628 Carmichael Prov. No. 899.
It is evil steiking the dure and the theif in the house(2) a1400 Leg. S. vii 785.
Al vnsterynge the stekyne Of the presone & the selynge Owte of the cawe than can me ta(3) 1546 Edinb. Hammermen 170b.
Item for steikin in of Thomas Schortis wyfis buith [8 d.](4) 1513 Treas. Acc. IV 480.
To xviij werkmen to cast about the greit schip for dichtin, stekin, and tallonyng of hir 1549 Edinb. Guild Ct. 24 Oct.
Stopping & steiking of the heid of the turngrice … quhilk aucht to be patent & oppin for his entres 1555–6 Edinb. B. Rec. II 319.
For steking up of the loch dyk 1597 Oldcambus Acc. 3.
Laying me lords stabill wt flagis with steiking and stinging therof

b. The action of fastening or staying (a piece of artillery). 1544 Treas. Acc. VIII 319.
Item, for steking of ane slang put in the Lyoun at hir departing

2. concr. The (means of) fastening or closure of (a door, etc.). a1400 Leg. S. vii 785.
Jhesus … al vnsterynge the stekyne Of the presone … Owte of the cawe than can me ta c1400 Troy-bk. ii 519.
Inne the which [sc. the Trojan horse] maid he sere stekynges Ryght craftely with wyse engynes, And so subtelly to be wrought That they of out-part apper nought c1400 Troy-bk. ii 733.
[He] The stekynges [of the Trojan horse] oppynned