Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The oozy vegetable substance in the bed of rivers.
  • noun Same as laver, 1.

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

  • noun (Bot.) See sloakan.

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Examples

  • What had occurred was this -- There was an old woman -- "Baba" in the native parlance for Dame Gossip -- a seller of the dried seaweed called _nori_ (sloke or laver), still called Asakusa _nori_, though even at that time gathered at Shinagawa, Omori, and more distant places.

    The Yotsuya Kwaidan or O'Iwa Inari Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 1 (of 2)

  • Do you think you can sloke me off with this stuff?

    The Torch and Other Tales Eden Phillpotts 1911

  • Once the first frosts had sweetened the sleabhac (nori or sloke), which was usually after Christmas, the cycle began.

    IrishExaminer.com 2010

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