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
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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)
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Do you think you can sloke me off with this stuff?
The Torch and Other Tales Eden Phillpotts 1911
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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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