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First published 1983 (DOST Vol. V).
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Pikky, Pyk(k)y, a. [Pik n.¹ Cf. e.m.E. pitchye (1552).] a. Bituminous; resinous; yielding pitch. b. Of smoke: Rising from burning pitch. c. Darkened with smoke. d. Dark, black; ? gloomy. — 1513 Doug. ix. iii. 23.
[A fir wood] With pikky treis blak skuggit abowt — Ib. v. xii. 32.
Quharfra outthrawis the pykky smoke coil blak — Ib. ix. ii. 97.
The tallowynt burdis kest a pikky [R. pikkit, Sm. pyky] low — Ib. iii. 65.
Be Stix the flude … Be that ilk pykky laik with brays blak [L. per pice torrentes]