meak

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English

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Etymology

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

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Noun

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meak (plural meaks)

  1. (dialectal or obsolete) A hook with a long handle; scythe.
    • 1557 February 13 (Gregorian calendar), 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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