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Barkit, ppl. adj. Also: barkitt, -yt, -et, barkcat; berkit, -et. [ME. barkid (Lydgate). f. Bark v.¹]

1. Tanned. Chiefly with hide or ledder.(a) 14.. Acts I. 336/2.
Of sowtaris … That thai make schone, butis, and vther graitht of the lethir or it be barkit 1429 Reg. Great S. 431/1.
In … pellibus vel hydis barkit et onbarkit 1477 Edinb. Chart. 140.
The scho merket of cordenaris … , alsa the rede barkit ledder 1496 Treas. Acc. I. 283.
For five barkit hydis to the Kingis pailȝounis Ib. 290.
For xij barkit schep skynnys c1500-c1512 Dunb. xxvii. 43.
His baner was of barkit hyd 1533 Edinb. B. Rec. II. 65.
All barkit ledder and maid stuf belanging oure craft 1535 Stewart 55733.
The Scottis hirdis … Of scrimplit ledder mony closbow maid Round as ane ball, of mony barkit skin 1567 Dundee B. Laws 368.
In working and lauboring sufficientlie barkit lether in making of bwteis [and] schone a1578 Pitsc. II. 273/10.
Barkcat hyddes cummand furth of the westland 1586 St. A. Test. II. 63.
Barkit ledder in the bark pot 1595 Paisley B. Rec. 165.
The price of ane barkit kowhyde coft at Martinmes last 1650 Ann. Banff I. 64.
Ilk barkit hyid, 8 d 1660 Melrose R. Rec. I. 264.
Four barkit oxin and kyne hydis(b) 1532 M. Works Acc. II. 56.
For berkit ledder to cover the polysouris [of a mill] 15.. Christis K. 197 (B).
Bludy berkit [M. barkit] wes thair beird a1570-86 Dunb. Maitl. F. l. 43.
His baner wes ane berkit [B. barkit] hyd 1581 Lanark B. Rec. 78.
Berket leder, schon, and sik like onie lefull geir of thair craftes

2. Hardened as if by tanning. c1500-c1512 Dunb. Flyt. 202.
Thow held the burcht lang with … ane caprowsy barkit all with sweit Ib. 239.
Beschittin, barkit hyd

3. Crusted. a1508 Kennedy Pass. Christ 1261.
His fair vissage all barkit our with blude