nookedadj.
/nʊkt/, U.S. /nʊkt/ 1. Having a specified number of corners. Scottish in later use. four-nooked adj. square. three-nooked adj. triangular.
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c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 10978 Bi þisse mære enden..is an lutel wiht mære... Feower-noked [c1300 Otho nokede] he is.
a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1959) vii. iii. 20 Ne spair thai nocht..Thair fatale four nukit trunschowris for to eit.
c1540 J. Bellenden tr. H. Boece Hyst. & Cron. Scotl. vii. xviii. f. 93/1 The mone beand in opposition (quhen it is maist round) apperit suddanly as it war foure nukit.
1596 J. Dalrymple tr. J. Leslie Hist. Scotl. (1888) I. 4 The Ile almaist is thrie nuiket.
1616 in J. Stuart Extracts Council Reg. Aberdeen (1848) II. 340 To..leave ane four nuikit hoill in the croun of the said voult.
1640 T. Nabbes Bride i. iv A Citty feast with a Ram-mutton pasty, and a twelve nookt custard.
1720 A. Pennecuik Streams from Helicon (ed. 2) i. 84 Bare banes made his four nook'd, Kiss my A——e' all round.
1816 W. Scott Antiquary III. vii. 148 A three-nookit hankercher is the maist fashionable overlay.
1821 W. Scott Kenilworth III. iv. 49 The loss of a four-nooked bit of paper.
a1843 J. Stewart Sketches Sc. Char. (1857) 118 Thae shapeless, mony-nookit blocks.
1899 Glasgow Herald 3 Apr. The twa-neukit moon.
1930 ‘H. MacDiarmid’ To Circumjack Cencrastus 143 Then dern nae mair 'neath yon twa-neukit mune.
2. Having points, peaks, or corners; angular.
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the world > space > shape > angularity > [adjective]
corneredc1330
corneledc1400
angulousa1460
angulated1486
unrounded1519
nookedc1550
corned1564
angular1570
cornery1576
angled1612
angulate1670
angulose1694
c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) vi. 43 Sum tyme it [sc. the moon] aperit neukyt heffand hornis and sum tyme it vas al rond.
1567 Compend. Bk. Godly Songs (1897) 195 Preistis, cut ȝour gowne, Ȝour nukit bonet put away.
1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 651 Such variety it hath of nouked bayes.
1632 Guillim's Display of Heraldrie (ed. 2) iii. xx. 228 By the Beake of an Hawke, is vnderstood the vpper part which is nooked.
a1800 A. Ramsay Epist. to W. Starrat (1877) II. 276 Lang mayst thou teach, with round and nooked lines, Substantial skill.
1911 G. H. West Gothic Archit. 239 This character, though derived from the nooked piers of the Norman, was first markedly given at Lincoln.
1988 Guardian (Nexis) 10 Mar. The deep, soft Wa-hoo call of big males settling to sleep in nooked and crannied trees.
1998 A. Ostriker Little Space 175 The nooked neck [of a turtle] Seems always in process of peering Hesitantly out, or rapidly withdrawing.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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