单词 | pickery |
释义 | pickeryn. Chiefly Scottish. Now rare. Petty theft; an instance of this. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > petty theft or pilfering > [noun] micherya1393 mitchinga1393 picking1402 purloining1417 pilferc1425 pickery1460 pilfering1548 filching1567 lurching1570 pilfery1573 petty larceny1578 filching-tradea1592 prigging1591 filchery1607 nimming1607 sneaking-budge1699 pilferage1732 cabbaging1774 weeding1819 pilferment1823 crib1855 filch1877 souveniring1919 the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > order Artiodactyla (cloven-hoofed animals) > [noun] > group Suiformes (hippos and pigs) > family Suidae (swine) > genus Dicotyles > peccary pickery1460 hog1644 peccary1667 musk hog1683 1460 Ayr Burgh Court Bks. 12 July Thai that ar ordanit to pas of the town for pikre [transcr. pik] & reset. 1488 in R. Renwick Extracts Rec. Royal Burgh of Lanark (1893) 1 Jame Andro..Kethrin Andro fylit of pycry. 1508 in R. Pitcairn Criminal Trials Scotl. (1833) I. *53 [Convicted of common Theft and] Pikry. ?a1554 H. Willoughby in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations (1589) ii. 266 For pickerie ducked at the yardes arme, and so discharged. 1578–84 Court Bk. Lyme Regis (modernized text) f. 279 Hedgebreakers..for the third offence..shall be whipped about the town, as such persons ought to be which commit pekery and petty larceny. 1613–17 in R. M. Fergusson Alex. Hume (1899) 200 For..preventing of the grite stewthe and pykrie that daylie incressis. 1660 D. Ure Hist. Rutherglen & E. Kilbride 73 The pykries..comitted be the gatherers of beir, peis and other cornes in hervest. 1681 Rec. Baillie Court Kelso f. 79 in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue at Pyck(e)ry The accusatioune of thift and other pyckrie. 1701 in Rothesay Town Council Rec. (1935) II. 539 Being suspect of several litle pickeryes and mesdemanours. a1765 J. Erskine Inst. Law Scotl. (1773) iv. iv. §59 The stealing of trifles, which in our law-language is styled pickery, has never been punished by the usage of Scotland, but with imprisonment, scourging, or other corporal punishment. 1815 W. Scott Guy Mannering III. iii. 54 A trifle stolen in the street is termed mere pickery. 1824 A. Crawford Tales Grandmother 276 See if ye can mak' ony han' o' this loon o' a callant, anent this said pickary. 1861 G. Ross W. Bell's Dict. Law Scotl. (rev. ed.) Pickery, is the stealing of trifles, which has never been punished in any other way than by an arbitrary punishment. 1901 N. Munro Doom Castle xiii Rape, arson..pickery, murder, or high treason. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1460 |
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