Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Play; sport: same as lake, 1.
  • noun A gift; an offering.
  • noun Middle English forms of the past participle of lock.
  • A Middle English form of look.
  • noun An obsolete or dialectal form of lock.
  • noun A wicket; hatch.
  • noun A close narrow lane; a cul-de-sac.
  • noun A private road or path.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Prov. Eng. A private path or road; also, the wicket or hatch of a door.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun The wicket or hatch of a door.
  • noun A close narrow lane; a cul-de-sac.
  • noun A private path or road.
  • noun A small field or meadow.

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From Middle English *loke, from Old English loca ("a bar, bolt; enclosure, stronghold"), from Proto-Germanic *lukô, *lukōn (“lock, opening”), from Proto-Indo-European *lewg- (“to bend, turn”). More at lock.

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  • A short, private, dead-end road. (via NPR's Says You)

    February 5, 2011