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tacket, n. Now dial.|ˈtækɪt| Forms: 4–6 taket(e, -ett(e, 5–6 Sc. tak(k)at(e, 6– tacket. [f. tack n.1 + -et1.] A nail; in later use, a small nail, a tack: cf. tack n.1 1, 2; now, in Sc. and north. dial., a hob-nail with which the soles of shoes are studded.
1316in Rogers Agric. & Prices II. 524/2 Takets [ibid. I. 546 tackets..seem to be cart or strake-nails]. c1330Coldingham Priory Inv. 10 In xviij barres ferri ad fenestras, wegges, et taketes. 1345–6Ely Sacr. Rolls (1907) II. 133 In takettis empt. pro mappis emendandis—4½d. 1483Cath. Angl. 377/2 A Taket, claviculus. 1512Acc. Ld. High Treas. Scot. IV. 298 Item, for v⊇ takkatis. 1532Lett. & Pap. Hen. VIII, V. 448 Pyne nails and English tacketts for nailing up the said buds and leaves. 1542Acc. Ld. High Treas. Scot. VIII. 132 Twa hankis wyre..to wyre the caisis of the windois..v⊇ small takettis deliverit to him thairto. 1617Minsheu Ductor, A Tacket, or tache. Vid. Naile. 1698R. Thoresby in Phil. Trans. XX. 207 Curiously nailed with two rows of very small Tackets. 1789Burns Capt. Grose's Peregrinations vi, Rusty airn-caps and jinglin jackets, Wad haud the Lothians three in tackets. 1859J. Brown Rab & Fr. (1862) 25 Heavy shoes, crammed with tackets, heel-capt and toe-capt. attrib. and Comb.1888Grant Keckleton 63 ‘The tackit⁓mackers..can barely supply the deman' for tackits’. 1896Keith Indian Uncle xvii. 274 He envied the tacket-soled boots that gave his quarry the advantage. 1897― Bonnie Lady xvi. 171 Wearing his strongest tacket boots. Hence ˈtacket v. trans., to stud (shoes) with tackets; whence ˈtacketed ppl. a., hob-nailed.
1864J. Brown Let. Dec. (1912) 234 To-morrow I meant in a pair of tacketed shoon to have explored some Grampian. 1896Setoun R. Urquhart i, Thick-soled blucher boots tacketed for rough roads. 1899Westm. Gaz. 31 Jan. 1/3 ‘Tacketed’ boots, and clothes,..impervious to the rain. |