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† picard, pickard, piker Obs.
Forms: 4 pyker, pycar, 4–6 picarde, 5 piccarde, pycard, pykkert, 6 picarte, pickard(e, pyckarde, pekart, pycker, (7 piker).
[app. from Fr.: origin and etymological form unascertained.
The form agrees with Picard, a native of Picardy; also with OF. picart, pik-, pick-, piccart, pikar, picquar, piccar, sharp, pointed, n. a kind of nail; but connexion with either of these is as yet unproved.]
A large sailing-boat or barge formerly used for coast or river traffic.
1357Act 31 Edw. III, Stat. ii. c. 2 Et qe nul vessel, appelle Pyker de Londres, ne de nulle part aillours, nentre deinz le dit haven [Jernemuth] pour encherer la feyre. 1483Cal. Anc. Rec. Dublin (1889) I. 364 All manner of men that occupieth shippes, piccardes, scaffes, and lighteres, in and unto the haven of the cite of Dyvelyn. 1497Acc. Ld. High Treas. Scot. I. 378 In the Towne of Air, giffin for vj dosan of burdis..to be grath to the Lord Kennydeis pykkert. 1542–3Act 34 & 35 Hen. VIII, c. 9 §1 Picardes and other greate botes with fore mastes of the burden of xv. toon and so to xxxvj toonne. Ibid. §2 That no persone or persones..shall enbote or lade..any Wheate..in any picarde bote or other Vessell at any creke pille banke or elswhere upon the Severne streme betwene the Keye of the Citie of Gloucestre, and the saide Citie or Towne of Bristoll. a1552Leland Itin. II. 105 Picartes and other smaul Vessels cum up by a Gut out of the Haven to the other Bridge on the Causey at Plymtun Townes Ende. 1565in Picton L'pool Munic. Rec. (1883) I. 108 With the said Captain and his company many fine trim and tall pickards from Liverpool and the coast. 1571Act 13 Eliz. c. 11 Uppon payne to forfaite theyr Catch Monger Pycker or Vessel, with the Tackle and al the Fysh in the same. 1599in Stirling Nat. Hist. & Arch. Soc. Trans. (1902) 29 To ye pekart at ye controllar command 1 lib bouter. |