meak
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English meeke, probably from Old Norse mækir (“sword”), from Proto-Germanic *mēkijaz. Cognate with Icelandic mækir, Old English mēċe.
Pronunciation[edit]
- Rhymes: -iːk
Noun[edit]
meak (plural meaks)
- (dialectal or obsolete) A hook with a long handle; scythe.
- 1557 February 13, Thomas Tusser, A Hundreth Good Pointes of Husbandrie., London: […] Richard Tottel, →OCLC; republished London: […] Robert Triphook, […], and William Sancho, […], 1810, →OCLC:
- A meak for the pease , and to swinge up the brake
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