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† ˈholleke Obs.
[OE. holléac, f. hol, holl a. + léac, leek; cf. Ger. hohllauch.]
A species of Allium or onion: according to 16th c. writers, the Chibol, Cibol, or Welsh onion, Allium fistulosum; earlier writers appear to apply it to the Scallion or Shallot (A. ascalonicum).
c1000Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 270/29 Duricorium, holleac. 14..Nom. in Ibid. 710/31 Hec ascolonia, a holleke [cf. 710/28 Hec hinnula, a scalyone]. 1483Cath. Angl. 187/2 An holleke, hinula [cf. John de Garlande (c 1225) Dictionarius (Wright Vocab. 136), inula Gallice dicitur eschaloigne]. 1548Turner Names of Herbes 25 s.v. Cepa, Hole leke. 1551― Herbal i. I ij b, Y⊇ herbe which is called of hym [Pliny] cepa fissilis..is it that we call in englysh holleke, & the duche men call Sere or Suer, and in fresland Suerley. Ibid., The onyons that we cal hollekes ar of this nature, that if one be set alone that their wil a greate sorte within a shorte space growe of that same roote. [1611Cotgr., Ciboule, a Chiboll, or hollow Leeke.] |