meak

English

Etymology

From Middle English meeke, probably from Old Norse mækir (“sword”), from Proto-Germanic *mēkijaz. Cognate with Icelandic mækir, Old English mēċe.

Pronunciation
  • Rhymes: -iːk

Noun

meak (plural meaks)

  1. (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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