cloke

cloke (plural clokes)

1. Archaic spelling of cloak.

cloke (third-person singular simple present clokes, present participle cloking, simple past and past participle cloked)

1. Archaic spelling of cloak.
   • 1926, The Book of Common Prayer of the Church of Ireland, The Order for Morning Prayer

     the Scripture moveth us in sundry places to acknowledge and confess our manifold sins and wickedness; and that we should not dissemble nor cloke them before the face of Almighty God our heavenly Father; but confess them with an humble, lowly, penitent, and obedient heart

• Locke, eckol, locke

From Old Northern French cloque, from Medieval Latin clocca, from Proto-Celtic *klokkos, ultimately imitative. Doublet of clokke.

• clok, kloke

• IPA^(key): /ˈklɔːk(ə)/

cloke

1. cloak, cape

• English: cloak
• Scots: cloak

• “clōke, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-23.

Unknown; forms with /tʃ/ are probably influenced by clicchen, which this noun may ultimately be related to.

• cleche, cloche, clouche, clowche, cluke, kloke

• IPA^(key): /ˈkloːk(ə)/, /ˈkluːk(ə)/, /ˈkloːtʃ(ə)/, /ˈkluːtʃ(ə)/

cloke (plural clokes)

1. claw, talon
2. clutches, grasp

This noun is usually only found in the plural.

• English: clutch, clutches (in part)
• Scots: cleuk, cluke, cluik

• “clọ̄ke, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-23.

From Middle Dutch clocke.

cloke

1. Alternative form of clokke

From Medieval Latin clocca, of Gaulish/Celtic origin, from Proto-Celtic *klokkos (“bell”) either onomatopoeic or from Proto-Indo-European *klek- (“to laugh, cackle”).

cloke f (plural clokes)

1. bell

• clotcher