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Quotation dates: 1513-1666
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Four-nukit, -newkit, a. Also: four(e)nukeit, -nuikit, -nuickit, -nuiked, -newked. [Nuke n. corner.] Fourcornered.(a) c1515 Asloan MS I. 328/23.
Crist … , joynit thir twa testamentis as ane foure nukit stane 1513 Doug. vii. ii. 26.
Ne spar thai not … Thar fatale four nukit trynschour forto eyt 1531 Bell. Boece I. 286.
The mone … apperit suddanly as it war foure nukit 1540 Lynd. Sat. 3416.
Our round bonats, we mak them, now, four nuickit 1598 Reg. Privy C. V. 459.
Thay … with ane schairp foure nukeit battoun straik him upon the hicht of his heid 1616 Aberd. B. Rec. II. 340.
To … leave ane four nuikit hoill in the croun of the said voult c1650 Spalding I. 36. c1650 Ib. 38.
Thair wes ane four nuikit taffill [in] maner of ane altar standing within the kirk(b) 1575 Edinburgh Testaments III. 318 b.
In his buith … fiftie aucht gilt foure newkit buistis 1584 Ib. XIV. 14 b.
Foure newkit blakbonettis for preistis 1666 Ib. LXXII. 194.
Tuo braid plaitts of iron four newked
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