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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
steek .
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Examples
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SamDuck steeked slippy acrylic just fine with no stitching or crochet.
- And She Knits Too! 2007
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Dude, I would never have steeked Patons Classic Wool.
- And She Knits Too! 2007
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"Tak 'your certie o' that my braw callant," said I, "ne'er sail it be tauld o 'Jamie Mc-Dougall, that he steeked his door again the puir and hauseless, an the bluidy sleuth hounds be on ye they'se find it ill aneugh I trow to get an inkling o' ye frae me, I'se sune shaw 'em the cauld shouther."
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 289, December 22, 1827 Various
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Whatever it was, the burghers of Inneraora paid no heed, but slept, stark and sound, behind their steeked shutters.
John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn Neil Munro
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Then he banked up the fire and steeked the window.
The Moon Endureth: Tales and Fancies John Buchan 1907
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For there was Janet hangin 'frae a nail beside the auld aik cabinet: her heid aye lay on her shouther, her een were steeked, the tongue projeckit frae her mouth, and her heels were twa feet clear abune the floor.
Masterpieces of Mystery, Vol. 1 (of 4) Ghost Stories Joseph Lewis French 1897
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The hand of him aye cawed the shuttle, but his een was steeked.
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For there was Janet hangin 'frae a nail beside the auld aik cabinet; her heid aye lay on her shouther, her een were steeked, the tongue projecket frae her mouth, and her heels were twa feet clear abune the floor.
Stories by English Authors: Scotland (Selected by Scribners) Various 1878
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The hand of him aye cawed the shuttle, but his een was steeked.
Catriona Robert Louis Stevenson 1872
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For there was Janat hangin 'frae a nail beside the auld aik cabinet: her heid aye lay on her shoother, her een were steeked, the tongue projekit frae her mouth, and her heels were twa feet clear abune the floor.
Merry Men Robert Louis Stevenson 1872
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