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Stok(k)it, Stockit, ppl. adj. Also: stokket, stocked. [Late ME and e.m.E. stokkid (c1425), stokkyd (Prompt. Parv.); Stok n.¹, v.¹]

1. Of a mare: ? In foal. Cf., however, Stok(k)in(g vbl. n.¹ 5. 1478 Acta Aud. 74/2.
James … tuk fra him of his avne propre gudis xij stokit meris and a stag of a ȝere auld 1479 Acta Conc. I 32/2.
Tuichinge the spoliacion of xij stokkit meris 1567 Reg. Privy S. V ii 362/2.
Cum pastura sex lie stokit meiris cum eorum pullis et sex lie saidlit hors 1580 (1590) Reg. Great S. 608/2.

2. attrib. and predic. Of a gun: Fitted with a stock. Also with qualifying term.attrib. 1557–8 Edinb. Old Acc. I 252.
For upbringing of twa stokket slangs furth of Leith vj s. 1560 Admir. Ct. Bk. (St. S.) 143.
Ane stokkit ȝetling with twa chalmeris 1594 Warrender P. (SHS) II 248.
He had schott the laird of Cadell throw the bodie with the laird of Ardkinglas reid stokit hagbutt 1596 Highland P. I 154.
Receiving back fra him of his read stockit hagbit lent be him 1694 Inchmahome Pr. 163.
Ane pair of yrone stockit pistollspredic. 1594 Warrender P. (SHS) II 248.
Ardkinglas awin hagbutt quhilk is reidstokkit 1669 Whitelaw Sc. Arms Makers 200.
3000 good and sufficient musquets … stocked with elme tree oyled over

3. Determined; stubborn.Also in the later dial. 1597 Melrose P. *613.
We ar now busie to satisfie the Inglis ambassadour and pay him in vther money nor be the delyuerie of oure wairdanis, whilk all men is stokkit to refuse 1613 Haddington Corr. 122.
I desyre … that the mater be vnended, and the naime left out til I mak tryal of his mening, for he vil be als stokit perhaps as me lord is: gif he be so, I had rether be in me lords reuerence nor his

4. Stockit teind: Of uncertain meaning, but cf. stok and teind etc. in Stok n.¹ 28; also, stocked multure, ‘a charge paid to a landowner by a tenant who had his corn ground by a mill outside the estate’ (SND, s.v. Stock v. 4). 1636 Glasg. Univ. Mun. I 257.
We decerne … the constant stokit teind victuell bollis for the personage … of Gorbellis and Brigend … to be now and in all tyme cuming four chalderis beir and aucht bollis meill of the mett and measor of Linlithgow 1651 Glasg. Univ. Mun. I 306.
Precept … contra the parochyners of Kilbryd for the stockit teynd bollis meill and viccarage silver [etc.]