Sc. and north. dial. [str. pa. pple. of LOUK v.1 See also LOKEN.] Closed, locked, shut up, close-joined; said e.g. of the hand or fist (lit. and fig.); also spec. of web-feet.
c. 1470. Henryson, Mor. Fab., XIII. (Frog & Mouse), vi. ‘With my twa feit,’ quod scho, ‘lukkin and braid, In steid of airis, I row the streme full still.’
1632. Lithgow, Trav., X. 469. Mine armes being broake, my hands lucken and sticking fast to the palmes of both hands, by reason of the shrunke sinewes.
1721. Ramsay, Genty Tibby, ii. Fresh as the lucken flowers in May.
1790. Fisher, Poems, 104. Lucken hands she ne’er had nane To man or beast.
b. Comb.: lucken-browed a., having the eyebrows close together; lucken-footed a., web-footed.
1683. G. Meriton, Yorksh. Dial., 73. Thou lucken-brow’d Trull.
1710. Sibbald, Hist. Fife (1803), 109. This [Turtur maritimus insulae Bass] is palmipes, that’s luckenfooted.
c. Lucken booths, booths that can be closed or locked up; hence, the place or quarter where such booths are permanently erected in a town.
1456. in Charters etc. Peebles (1872), 113. Land awest half the Cors and on the North Rau som tym was callet the Lwkyn Bothys. Ibid. (1625), 413. In ane hows at the bak of the Lwikinbuithis.
a. 1835. J. M. Wilson, Tales Borders (1839), V. 10/2. The buildings of the jail and Luckenbooths hid that part of the street.
1896. Crockett, Grey Man, ii. 13. Buying of trittle-trattles at the lucky-booths.
