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Stekit, Steikit, Stikit, ppl. adj.2 Also: steked, steiket, sticked. [Stek(e v.2 Also in the later dial.] Of the fist or hand, chiefly in collocation with Neve n.: Closed, clenched.(1) 1565–6 Inverness Rec. I 131.
Struike me vpon the face wyth his stekit naiff 1570 Bann. Memor. 73.
Steikit 1602 Shetland Sheriff Ct. (ed.) 30.
Giffing ane straik with his steikit neff 1606 Inverness Rec. II 34.
For … drawing of the said Murdois bluid with his steked naiff 1617 Cramond Cullen Ann. 35.
Steiket 1644 Aberd. B. Rec. IV 27.
For striking of Christian Telly with hir stikit neiff on the mouthe a1646 Wedderburn Voc. (1709) 19.
Percussit me pugno, He overtook me with his steicked neiff(2) 1635 Jervise Land of the Lindsays 250 n.
As much barlie meall as you will hold in your sticked hand
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