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Songs of the bards of the Tyne; or, A choice selection of ...
Thou cracks steel nuts, * an' figures glass,* 1 haw engine does the world surpass
f It graces Polly's Nickstick." But, Lor I to tell you all aw seed, Wad fill a bible-beuk,
man ! Balloons was dancin' biv a thread, An' folks hung biv a heuk, man.
Tyne river, Joseph Philip Robson, 1850
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Jamieson's Dictionary of the Scottish Language: In which the ...
NICKSTICK, «. A tally, S. Trans. Antiq. See. S. nick, a notch, and stick.
NICKSTICK 110DIE. One who proceeds exactly according to rule ; as, if he has
had one to dine with him, he will not ask him again without having a return in kind
, Teviotdale ...
John Jamieson, John Johnstone (of Edinburgh.), John Longmuir, 1867
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A Dictionary of the Scottish Language: In which the Words ...
NICKSTICK BODIE. One who proceeds exactly according to rule ; as, if he his
had one to dine with him, he will not ask him again without having a return in kind
, Teviotdale. NICNEVEN, i. The Scottish Hteatt or mother-witch. Montgumerie.
John Jamieson, John Johnstone (of Edinburgh.), 1846
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Transactions of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland
You are to advent to keep an e-xacft nickstick betwixt yourand: the coalzier, of the
number of deals of coalsreceived in, and payihim for every half score of deals.
com.e in, or-when fewer, as he de-sires it, so that there may be no consufion of ...
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A Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language ...: ...
Isl. hnick-r dolus, also apprehensio violenta, hnick-ia raptare ; Haldorson.
NICKNACKET, s. A trinket, S.A. " Nick-nackets, trinkets }" Gl. Antiq. Nicknackie,
adj. Dextrous in doing any piece of nice work, Roxb.; synon. Nacketie.
NICKSTICK, s.
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Scottish Dictionary and Supplement: In Four Volumes. Suppl. ...
Isl. hnick-r dolus, also apprehensio violenta, hnick-ia raptare ; Haldorson.
NICKNACKET, s. A trinket, S.A. " Nick-nackets, trinkets ;" Gl. Antiq. Nicknackie,
adj. Dextrous in doing any piece of nice work, Roxb.; synon. Nacketie.
NICKSTICK, s.
The duke was a statist and financier of some note in his time, and ho shows it by
the sharpness of his pecuniary computings, or, we should rather say, by his close
eye to ' the nickstick.' It is scarcely necessary to tell the Scottish reader, that ...
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Titan: A Monthly Magazine...
Tou are to advert to keep an exact nickstick betwixt you and the coalzier, of the
number of deals of coals received in, and pay him for every half score of deals
come in, or when fewer, as he desires it, so that there may be no confusion of
long ...
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Hogg's Weekly Instructor
The dnke was a st :ti t and financier of some note in his time, and he shows it by
the sharpness of his pecuniary computingr, or, we should mther sny, by his close
eye to ' the nickstick.' Il is scarcely nicessary to tell the Scot tish reader, that ...
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The Gaberlunzie's Wallet
With her, the baker required to keep no nickstick, the butcher no chalk-board ;
and were it not for wearying out the patience of some of my readers, I would
certainly lay before them a few extracts from her cash-book, which might, perhaps
, ...
