Chapter SPIN to SUCKET of S by The Hobson Jobson Dictionary

a ‘slice of melon or gourd,’ Ital. zuccata, ‘a kind of meat made of Pumpions or Gourdes’ (Florio) from zucca, ‘a gourd or pumpkin,’ which is a shortened form of cucuzza, a corruption of Lat. cucurbita (Diez). This is perhaps the same word which appears in the quotation from Linschoten below, where the editor suggests that it is derived from Mahr sukata, ‘slightly dried, desiccated,’ and Sir H. Yule suggests a corruption of H. sonth, ‘dried ginger.’]

[1537.—“… packed in a fraile, two little barrels of suckat. …”—Letters and Papers of the Reign of Henry VIII. xii. pt. i. 451.]

1584.—“White sucket from Zindi” (i.e. Sind) “Cambaia, and China.”—Barret, in Hakl. ii. 412.

[1598.—“Ginger by the Arabians, Persians and Turkes is called Gengibil (see GINGER), in Gusurate, Decan, and Bengala, when it is fresh and green Adrac, and when dried sukte.”—Linschoten, Hak. Soc. ii. 79.]

c. 1620–30.—

“..... For this,
This Candy wine, three merchants were undone;
These suckets brake as many more.”

Beaum. and Fletch., The Little French Lawyer, i. 1.

Beaum. and Fletch., The Little French Lawyer, i. 1.