Sc. [Origin uncertain: cf. NOGGIN.] A small cask or barrel; a keg.

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a. 1585.  Polwart, Flyting w. Montgomerie, 790. Buttrie bag, fill knag! thou will rag with thy fellows.

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1596.  Compt Buik Dav. Wedderburne (S.H.S.), 46. Ane Knag of Vinacre.

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1703.  Rules Edin. Fire Co., in Maitland, Hist. Edinb., v. (1753), 329. Threttie sex Stings with Knags … whereof sex standing full of Water.

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1804.  W. Tarras, Poems, 8 (Jam.). To slock our drouth’s a knag o’ berry brown.

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  Hence Knaggie (dim.), a small wooden vessel (of the capacity of a pint or so) with an upright handle. Sc.

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