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Walkit, Wakit, ppl. adj. Also: walked, wallkit, waulked, wakkut, waked, wacked, waikit, -et, -ed, waicked. [Walk v.³] Of cloth: Fulled, thickened by fulling. See also Miln-walkit ppl. adj.(a) 1490 Acta Conc. I 166/2.
A tanny wob contenand xx elen of walkit claitht 1568 Edinb. Test. I 152b.
xviii ellis walkit clayth price of the eln xviii s. 1574 Edinb. Test. III 177a.
Thrie elnis of walkit tartane to xxiiii s. 1576 Edinb. Test. IV 292b.
xv elnis of walkit serge daskat price of the eln xvi s. … vnwalkit serge daskane price of the eln xiiii s. 1584 Edinb. Test. XIII 149.
Ane wob in the walk myln of quhyt contenand xxi elnis of raw claith quhilk being walkit extendis to x elnis walkit quhyt claith 1613 Orkney Test. and Inv. 86.
3 ellis gray claith fut walkit 1624 Dumfr. & Galloway Soc. 3 Ser. XXXII 183.
Wallkit 1628 Dumbarton B. Rec. 25.
Waulked 1651 Elgin Rec. I 289.
Walked 1672 Lanark B. Rec. 194.
Any inlandish walkit work 1675 Kirkcudbr. Test. (Reg. H.) 13 May.
Four … score ells of walked cloth. Item als much not walked(b) 1536 Linlithgow B. Ct. 6 Oct.
Sex ellis of wakkut clayth 1632 Inv. Newark 4b.
Of comon wakit blankitis 1662 Edinb. Test. LXX 216.
Waked 1691 Kirkcudbr. Test. (Reg. H.) 22 May.
Siven ells of litted and wacked savidge(c) 1583 Elgin Rec. I 172.
Waikit 1636 Aberd. Sheriff Ct. II 417.
Ane wob of gray waiket cloth 1643 Edinb. Test. LX 281.
Ane pair of auld thick waiked blankettis pryce thairof x s. 1686 Depred. Clan Campbell 105.
Waicked