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First published 2001 (DOST Vol. X).
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Quotation dates: 1604, 1658-1672
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Thikit, -et, Thickit, ppl. adj. [Thik v.] Of cloth: Fulled. — 1604 Wedderb. Compt Bk. 45.
I inbuikit in the schip … xij ellis … thickit blew worȝet clayth and send the sam … to be littit … tanny or … rusche broun 1604 Wedderb. Compt Bk. 45.
I send … ane narrow pece quhyt clayth thikit of 7 ellis a half to be littit fyn scarlit 1658 Brechin Testaments VI 157.
Fywe ells of new wheatt being thickit worth vij lib. 1663 Household Bks. Archb. Sharp MS 5b.
To David Black to buy thiket whit cloath 1672 Dundee B. Laws 550.
For dressing thikit narrow cloath, twell pennies
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