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Stekit, Steikit, Stik(k)it, ppl. adj.³ Also: stiekit, steicht, stickit, -et, sticht, steek. [e.m.E. stiched (1583), sticht (1598), stitched (1658); Steke v.³] Of a garment, etc.: Stitched, ? chiefly decorated with stitching, embroidered or quilted. b. Of fabric: Embroidered. c. Of books, etc.: Constructed by joining the pages together with stitching, sewn.Quots. 1614 and 1632 in (b) may belong in b.(a) 1507 Treas. Acc. III 262.
Satin to be ane stekit goun to the king 1541–2 Treas. Acc. VIII 63.
Gevin to the tapescher for ane stekit matt to hir, xxxv s.(b) 1503 Treas. Acc. II 204.
Satin, to be ane steikit doublat to the king, … For lynyne claith tua ply to it 1507 Treas. Acc. IV 16.
For ix elne j quartar blak satin to be ane steikit cote to the king … for vj½ elne cammes to steik it on 1565–6 Prot. Bk. Thomas Johnsoun 97.
1 steikit covering 1587 Edinb. Test. XVIII 53b.
Tua steikit nycht bonettis 1597 Edinb. Test. XXX 161.
Thrie lynning steikit bonnatis 1603 Treas. Acc. MS 242.
Ane steikit mat 1614 Laing MSS 139.
Ane stiekit tafetie west coit 1627 Edinb. Test. LIV 167b.
xxvj steikit beltis 1632 Inv. Newark 3a.
Ane steikit taffitie matt 1632 Inv. Newark 4a.
Steikit mattis of quhyt bumbassie 1635 Haddington Corr. 301.
Ane taffetie greene steikit cover 1653 Edinb. Test. LXVII 145.
Ane yellow steikit matt worth tuelff pund(c) 1531 Treas. Acc. VI 17.
Stikkit 1580 Coll. Aberd. & B. 391.
Stikit 1597 Bk. Rates 6.
Stikit hattis 1625 Brechin Test. IV 198.
Tua stickit beltis 1671–93 Hawick Arch. Soc. (1905) 14. a1700 Culross II 169.
Ane small sword with ane sticket gray belt(d) 1690 Foulis Acc. Bk. 120.
To my wife to buy a steicht mucht(e) 1659 Craven Ch. in Orkney II 197.
Two bed steek cussiones, fyve pittie poynt cussionesb. 1589 12th Rep. Hist. MSS. App. viii 104.
15 ellis fyne blak stekit silk taffatie to be ane goune to your ladyship at iiii^li xv/ell c1614 Laing MSS 139.
Thertie yeardis of flowrit tafetie or sume uther bonie sticht stuffe for his doichterisc. 1622 Edinb. Test. LI 247.
Tua thowsand … bund of steikit ingleisch buikis 1622 Misc. Bann. C. II 242.
Item ane thowsand fyve hundreth fowrtie nyn, bund, of steikit Latein buikis 1646 Misc. Bann. C. II 264.
Ane bundill of steikit books, pamflets, and waist papers