A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1983 (DOST Vol. V).
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Quotation dates: 1399-1420
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(Pluke,) Pluyk, Ployk, n.1 [Only Sc. Gael. ploc, gen. pluic, a club, MIr. pluc ‘a round mass, knob, lump, hence a mace or club’.] A cudgel or bludgeon; a stout stick. — a1400 Legends of the Saints xix. 98.
Christofore … roydly passit furth … his pluyk in til his hand a1400 Ib. 215.
In sted of staf a ployk [he] had Wele nere as a perktre mad c1420 Bute MS. fol. 161.
That ar cummyn to mannys elde sal gang dure be dure wyth pluykis stafys speris wyth brogys and armys [sc. as watch]
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