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First published 1951 (DOST Vol. II).
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Flak(k)et, Flacat, n. Also: flackat, -ait, flakat, flakot; flacket, flakett, flak(k)it, flacit; flaikat, -et; flekket, flecket(t, flekit, fleikate. [e.m.E. flacket, ME. flaket, ONF. *flaquet, flasquet, dim. of flasque.] A flask or flagon.(a) 1479 Acta Conc. 26/2.
Defalkand of the soume … the avale of iiij armes of the flakettis
1550 Reg. Great S. 102/2.
Duas ampullas stanneas lie flakkettis nuncupatas
1575 Edinb. Test. III. 318.
A glas flakket
1596 Fraser P. 229.
Ane tyn flakit
1643 Misc. Abbotsf. C. I. 182.
Ȝe being in the meantyme drying corne with ane hott stone one ane flakkit
1661 Buccleuch Mun. II. 314.
Ane old foure squaire tin flaket
(b) 1502 Treas. Acc. II. 66.
For iiij flacatis of tyn … for the kyrk
1507 Ib. IV. 86.
For vj gret flacatis of glas to the King
1576 Orkney Oppress. 72.
Ane cag with twelff pundis of saip, with thre flakattis of came
1615 Haddington Corr. 288.
Ane gilt flacat for sweitt watteris
1630 Bamff Chart. 223.
Thrie beir glasses, elewin glassin flakots
1694 Pr. Inchmahome 161.
Of peuther flackats, 2
(c) 1612 Edinb. Test. XLVII. 78 b.
Ane tyn flaikat
1631 Ib. LV. 34 b.
Certane glasis & flaikettes
(d) 1575 Edinb. Test. III. 318.
Ane wand flekket of glas of ane pynt
1615 Ib. XLVIII 224.
Threttie sevin glas flekitis
1658 Ib. LXIX. 179.
Tuo quart fleikates

b. Attrib. with glas. 1619 Edinb. Test. I. 227 b.
Tua dosone of flecket glasis
1642 Ib. LX. 167.
Aucht glasis callit flakett glasis

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