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nooked, a.|nʊkt|
[f. nook n.]
1. Having (so many) corners, esp. in four-nooked, square, three-nooked, triangular. Now dial.
c1205Lay. 21999 Þer þis water wendeð, is an lutel wiht mære... Feower noked [c 1275 Four nokede] he is. 1513Douglas æneis vii. iii. 20 Ne spair thai nocht..Thair fatale four nukit trunschowris for to eit. 1536[see four a. C. 2]. 1596Dalrymple tr. Leslie's Hist. Scotl. Prol. 4 The Ile almaist is thrie nuiket. Ibid. i. 98 Thay far starker do make, four nuiked, of earth only. 1616Aberd. Burgh Reg. (1848) II. 340 To..leave ane four nuikit hoill in the croun of the said voult. 1640Nabbes Bride i. iv, A Citty feast with a Ram-mutton pasty, and a twelve nookt custard. 1816Scott Antiq. xxxvi, A three-nookit handkercher is the maist fashionable overlay. 1821― Kenilw. xxix, The loss of a four-nooked bit of paper. 1857J. Stewart Sketches Scot. Character 118 Thae shapeless, mony-nookit blocks.
2. Having points, peaks, or corners; angular.
1549Compl. Scot. vi. 54 Sum tyme it [the moon] aperit neukyt, heffand hornis, and sum tyme it vas al rond. 1567Gude & Godlie B. (S.T.S.) 195 Preistis, cut ȝour gowne, Ȝour nukit bonet put away. 1610Holland Camden's Brit. i. 651 Such variety it hath of nouked bayes. 1632J. Guillim Heraldry iii. xx. (ed. 2) 238 By the Beake of an Hawke, is vnderstood the vpper part which is nooked. 17..Ramsay Carle came o'er Croft ii. (1877) II. 208 A siller broach..To fasten on my curtchea nooked. 17..― To Starrat 13 ibid. 276 Lang mayst thou teach, with round and nooked lines, Substantial skill. |