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jockteleg Sc. and north. dial.|ˈdʒɒktəlɛg|
Also α. 7 Jock the Leg, 8– jocte-, jactaleg, 9 jockta-, joktaleg, jock-to-, jock-tae-leg. β. 8–9 jacklag, jack-o-legs, 9 jacka-, jacki-, jackylegs, jocka-, jocke-, jockylegs.
[The α forms are Sc., and the original; the β forms are Engl. dial. See Note below.]
A (large) clasp knife.
α1672Acc.-bk. Sir J. Foulis (1894) 6 For a Jock the Leg Knife 00l. 08s. 0d. Scots. 1727Ramsay Twa Cut-purses, Sma' gimcracks that pleas'd their nodles Sic as a joctaleg, or sheers. 1785Burns Halloween v, An' gif the custock's sweet or sour, Wi' joctelegs they taste them. 1789― Peregrin. Capt. Grose viii, It was a faulding jocteleg, or lang-kail gullie. 1818Scott Rob Roy xxxii, After John Highlandman's sneckit this ane wi' his joctaleg. 1833Fraser's Mag. Oct. 398 In a hole he had..jock-to-legs, keelavine-pens..or whatever else he could purloin. 1885J. Grant Royal Highlanders (Rtldg.) 229 A large knife—like the genuine jockteleg of the days of old.
β1777Horæ Subsecivæ 227 (E.D.D.) Jack-lag-knife. 1787Grose Prov. Gloss., Jack-o-legs, a clasp knife. (North.) 1822T. Bewick Mem. 26, I involuntarily got my ‘Jackleg knife’. 1825Brockett, Jackalegs, Jockelegs, a large clasped knife. 1847–78Halliwell, Jack-lag-knife, a clasped knife. Glouc.
[Note. Lord Hailes Spec. Sc. Gloss. (c 1776) 18, says ‘The etymology of this word remained unknown till not many years ago an old knife was found having this inscription Jacques de Liege, the name of the cutler’. A similar statement is made by Smiles Industr. Biog. (1863) 101, and Jevons Coal Question (1866) 91. The former says ‘Jacques de Liege, a famous foreign cutler whose knives were as well known throughout Europe, as those of Rodgers or Mappin are now’. On the face of it this account is plausible: it was not uncommon in Sc. for de to be corrupted to the, e.g. the Bruce; the change of d to t after k is also phonetically simple. But, for the present, Scottish antiquaries have failed to find any confirmation, in knife or document, of Hailes's statement; and inquiries made for us at Liege have been equally unsuccessful in finding any trace of Jacques the cutler.] |