sb. Now dial. Forms: 4–6 taket(e, -ett(e, 5–6 Sc. tak(k)at(e, 6– tacket. [f. TACK sb.1 + -ET.] A nail; in later use, a small nail, a tack: cf. TACK sb.1 1, 2; now, in Sc. and north. dial., a hob-nail with which the soles of shoes are studded.

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1316.  in Rogers, Agric. & Prices, II. 524/2. Takets [ibid., I. 546 tackets … seem to be cart or strake-nails].

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c. 1330.  Coldingham Priory Inv., 10. In xviij barres ferri ad fenestras, wegges, et taketes.

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1345–6.  Ely Sacr. Rolls (1907), II. 133. In takettis empt. pro mappis emendandis—41/2d.

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1483.  Cath. Angl. 377/2. A Taket, claviculus.

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1512.  Acc. Ld. High Treas. Scot., IV. 298. Item, for vc takkatis.

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1532.  Lett. & Pap. Hen. VIII., V. 448. Pyne nails and English tacketts for nailing up the said buds and leaves.

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1542.  Acc. Ld. High Treas. Scot., VIII. 132. Twa hankis wyre … to wyre the caisis of the windois … vc small takettis deliverit to him thairto.

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1617.  Minsheu, Ductor, A Tacket, or tache. Vid. Naile.

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1695.  R. Thoresby, in Phil. Trans., XX. 207. Curiously nailed with two rows of very small Tackets.

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1789.  Burns, Capt. Grose’s Peregrinations, vi. Rusty airn-caps and jinglin jackets, Wad haud the Lothians three in tackets.

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1859.  J. Brown, Rab & Fr. (1862), 25. Heavy shoes, crammed with tackets, heel-capt and toe-capt.

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  attrib. and Comb.  1888.  Grant, Keckleton, 63. ‘The tackit-mackers … can barely supply the deman’ for tackits.’

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1896.  Keith, Indian Uncle, xvii. 274. He envied the tacket-soled boots that gave his quarry the advantage. Ibid. (1897), Bonnie Lady, xvi. 171. Wearing his strongest tacket boots.

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  Hence Tacket v. trans., to stud (shoes) with tackets; whence Tacketed ppl. a., hob-nailed.

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1896.  Setoun, R. Urquhart, i. Thick-soled blucher boots tacketed for rough roads.

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1899.  Westm. Gaz., 31 Jan., 1/3. ‘Tacketed’ boots, and clothes,… impervious to the rain.

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