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▪ I. leck, n. dial.|lɛk|
Also 8 lack.
A hard subsoil of clay or gravel. Also attrib., as lack-clay; leck-stone, a granular variety of trap rock used in some parts of Scotland for the slabs of ovens.
1780Young Tour. Irel. i. 199 Immediately under the moor, is a thin stratum of what they call lack-clay, which is like baked clay, the thickness of a tile. 1813R. Kerr Agric. Surv. Berwick 41 A half lapidified tough and compact clay, called leck by the quarriers. 1862Page Adv. Text-Bk. Geol. vii. 126 Before the improved manufacture of fire-bricks, some open-textured varieties [of greenstone], known as ‘leck-stones’, were largely used for the linings and soles of ovens. 1899Dickinson & Prevost Cumberld. Gloss., Leck, a hard subsoil of clay and gravel.
▪ II. leck, v. rare exc. dial.|lɛk|
[Cf. E.D.D. leck v.]
= leak v. 2 c.
1922Joyce Ulysses 749 Shes [a cat] as bad as a woman always licking and lecking.
▪ III. leck, leckar
obs. forms of lac-, lacquer. |