Now dial. Now dial. Chiefly Sc. (tuk). Forms: 4–5 tukke, 5 tuke, 5–7 touk, 6 tuik, 7 touck, -e, towke, 9 took, towk, 7– tuck. [a. ONF. toker, toquer, touker (a. 1400 in Godef., Compl.) to touch, strike, northern form of toucher to TOUCH, = Prov., Sp., Pg. tocar, It. toccare ‘to touch, hit, to smite, strike’ (Florio): cf. also TOCSIN.]
1. trans. and intr. To touch (rare); to beat the drum; also intr. of a drum: To sound.
13[?]. E. E. Allit. P., B. 1414. & ay þe nakeryn noyse, notes of pipes, Tymbres & tabornes, tukket [MS. tulket] among.
a. 1400–50. Alexander, 2427. Þe Tebies tukkid [MSS. tulkid, -yd] vs with tene, a-tired þam in armes.
a. 1500. Battle of Harlaw, xviii., in Sel. Coll. Sc. Ballads (1790), III. 17. The trumpet sounds, The dandring drums aloud did tuik.
1629. Reg. Privy Council Scot., Ser. II. III. 5. The said James … caused ring the kirk bell and towke thair drwm.
1642. Burgh Rec. Glasgow, 12 Feb. (1876), 437. Ordains the drummers to touk throughe the toun.
a. 1670. Spalding, Troub. Chas. I. (1850), I. 222. Trvmpettis soundis and drumis tovkis.
1887. Suppl. to Jamieson, Took, touk, towk, to strike, beat, blow, tuck; as, ‘to took the drum.’
† 2. trans. To sound a blast on (a trumpet); to blow up. Obs. rare.
a. 1400–50. Alexander, 773. With þat þai tuke vp [v.r. tukkyn vp] þaire trompes.
3. intr. Of the wind: To blow in gusts. dial.
1833. D. M‘Kay, in Rec. & Bards Angus & Mearns (1897), 301. I have wondered full oft as it [the hurricane] tookit and blew, If ever its sughin was leerie to you.
1893. Wiltshire Gloss., s.v., ‘The wind is so tucking to-day,’ i. e. gusty, veering.
