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Quotation dates: 1400-1512, 1593-1650
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Had(d)ok, Had(d)ock, n. Also: hadek, haddow. Pl.: haddokis (etc.), haddox; hadys (later variant as in the modern dialect). [e.m.E. haddock, ME. hadok(e, haddok (1307–8), origin uncertain.] A haddock. c1420 Bute MS. fol. 170 b.
Of ilk m haddow 14.. Acts I. 305/2.
Of ilk hundreth fysch, kelyng, leyng or hadok at the entry nocht, of a thousand haddockis or quhytingis … a peny a1500 Henr. III. 152/57.
The harnis of ane haddok, hakkit or haill c 1489 Liber Aberbr. 262.
To be bocht in dry hadokis ande speldingis c1500-c1512 Dunb. 1xxxii. 9.
May nane pas throw ȝour principall gaittis For stink of haddockis and of scaittis 1593 Elgin Rec. II. 33.
The fischar wyves to be poyndit of a dousand haddokis 1605 6th Rep. Hist. MSS. App. 667/2.
To salt thair coidlengis, quytingis and haddokis and to send thame to France 1622 Urie Baron Ct. 45.
The haill fischers … to pey 100 haddox 1628 Rec. Univ. Aberd. 582.
Keillen iiij … ; to the cuik hadeks iiij 1628 Ib. 585.
Fresche haddocks xii dusson 1650 Ib. 587.
Seavine dossane of hadokis 1650 Ib. 587.
Ellivine dusson of hadys, … ; two salmond
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