Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- An obsolete or dialectal form of
stake . - An obsolete form of sleek, slick.
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Examples
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About two in the morning she asked for a little champagne; her mind was so clear that, after exchanging a few sentences with her nephew in the Lancashire dialect and drinking her small glass of champagne, she said with a smile, “It's good sleck,” and lay still for a while.
Philip Gilbert Hamerton Hamerton, Philip G 1896
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I'm ommost chok'd wi 'smithy sleck, (4) the wind it is so hoigh.
Yorkshire Dialect Poems (1673-1915) and traditional poems Frederic William Moorman 1895
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About two in the morning she asked for a little champagne; her mind was so clear that, after exchanging a few sentences with her nephew in the Lancashire dialect and drinking her small glass of champagne, she said with a smile, "It's good sleck," and lay still for a while.
Philip Gilbert Hamerton An Autobiography, 1834-1858, and a Memoir by His Wife, 1858-1894 Eug��nie Hamerton 1864
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"A toothed sleck stone," I take to mean a "jagged whetstone," very unfit for its purpose; but what is the force of the term "as bullish?"
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"A toothless satire is as improper as a toothed sleck stone, and as bullish."
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“They let me lie, Lucy,” he was crying, “they let me lie two mortal hours on th’ sleck afore they took me outer th’ stall.
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"Why mucky watter 'll sleck as weel as clean, give us howd of a pailful
Yorksher Puddin' A Collection of the Most Popular Dialect Stories from the Pen of John Hartley John Hartley 1877
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