Obs. Forms: 1 stycce, sticce, (Northumb. stycgc, pl. stycas, stycgce), 2–3 stuc(c)he (ü), 3 sticche, stec(c)he, 4 Kent. stechche. [Com. Teut. (wanting in Gothic): OE. stycce str. neut. = OS. stukki, MDu. stucke, stic (mod.Du. stuk), OHG. stucchi (MHG. stücke, mod.G. stück), ON. stykki (Sw. stycke, Da. stykke):—OTeut. *stukkjo-m, cogn. w. *stukko-z STOCK sb.] A fragment, piece.

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  In ONorthumbrian applied to ‘the widow’s mite.’

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c. 825.  Vesp. Psalter, cxlvii. 17. Frusta panis, stycce hlafes.

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c. 900.  trans. Bæda’s Hist., III. vi. (1890), 166. Se cyning … bebead, þæt mon þone disc tobræce to styccum [v.rr. sticcum, sticum].

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c. 950.  Lindisf. Gosp., John xix. 23. [Hia] worhton feuoer dælo, eʓhuoelcum anum cempan dæl vel stycʓ [Rushw. stycce].

5

a. 1200.  Moral Ode, 189, in O. E. Hom., I. 171. We ʓeueð uneðe for his luue a stuche of ure brede.

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c. 1205.  Lay., 16703. Samuel … al to-swadde þene king in Jerusalemus chepping, & þa stucchen [c. 1275 sticches] tarueden wide ȝeond þa straten.

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a. 1225.  Leg. Kath., 1992. Smit se smertliche herto, þat alle þeos fowr hweoles tohwiðeren to stucchen.

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1340.  Ayenb., 111. Þet is to zigge þet me ssel recordi zueteliche and smalliche be little stechches alle þe guodnesses of oure lhorde.

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