steek

English

Alternative forms

• steik

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Scots steek, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English steke (“to enclose”) and Middle Dutch steken (“to stitch”). Noun from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Scots steek (“stitch”), from Middle Dutch steek (“stitch”). More at stick, stitch.

Verb

steek (third-person singular simple present steeks, present participle steeking, simple past and past participle steeked)

1. To stitch (sew with a needle)
2. To shut or close

Noun

steek (plural steeks)

1. (Scotland) A stitch.
   • 1934, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Grey Granite, Polygon 2006 (A Scots Quair), p. 565:

     Ake Ogilvie told the tale the next day to Ma Cleghorn, Ma lying at rest in her bed, she'd gone to bed with a steek in her side and as lying fair wearied till Ake looked in.

2. A set of stitches used to fasten knitting together.

Anagrams

• 'keets, Teske, keets, skeet, skete, teeks

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Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /steːk/

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• Rhymes: -eːk

Etymology 1

Noun

steek m (plural steken, diminutive steekje n)

1. a prick (insect bite), a stab, a thrust
2. a knot
3. a stitch
4. a bicorne or tricorn; a cornered hat

   Synonym: punthoed

Derived terms

• geen steek zien
• in de steek laten

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

steek

1. (deprecated template usage) first-person singular present indicative of steken
2. (deprecated template usage) imperative of steken

Anagrams

• sekte, steke