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▪ I. sleak, v.1 Now dial. and rare.|sliːk| Also 4–5 sleke. [var. of sleck v.: cf. reke, reak reck v.] 1. trans. To quench, extinguish, assuage.
13..Cursor M. 18020 (Gött.), Aisel haue i blend wid gall, For to sleke his threist wid-all. 13..E.E. Allit. P. B. 708 Luf lowe hem bytwene lasched so hote, Þat alle þe meschefez on mold moȝt hit not sleke. a1400in Polit., Relig., & L. Poems (1903) 135 Þou may þaim sleke, als is a sparke when it is put in myddes þe see; & þar may no man sleke my myse bot þou. c1440Gesta Rom. xxxvii. 120 (Add. MS.), As watir sleketh fire, so almesdede sleketh synne. 1781J. Hutton Tour to Caves (ed. 2) Gloss. 96 Sleak, to quench. 1884Lays & Leg. N. Irel. 76 Feelin' his drouth stud in need av a sleakin'. 2. To slake (lime). Hence sleaked ppl. a.
c1450M.E. Med. Bk. (Heinrich) 217 Tak arpment, & slekyd lyme, & argoyle. 1676Phil. Trans. XI. 714 They mix it with Chalk well sleaked. 3. intr. To give over or stop raining. dial.
1781J. Hutton Tour to Caves (ed. 2) Gloss. 96. ▪ II. sleak, v.2 dial.|sliːk| [var. of slake v.2] 1. trans. (See quot.)
1674Ray N.C. Words 41 To Sleak out the tongue, to put it out by way of scorn, Chesh. [Hence in Bailey, Grose, etc.] 1886–7in Cheshire glossaries. 2. To lick.
1846Ballads & Songs of Ayrshire I. 112 (E.D.D.), He louped up an' sleak'd her cheek. ▪ III. sleak(e obs. forms of sleek a. and v. |