sleakv.1
/sliːk/ Now dialect and rare.
1. transitive. To quench, extinguish, assuage.
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the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > coldness > extinguishing fire > extinguish (fire) [verb (transitive)]
aquenchc1000
quenchc1175
sleckc1175
slockena1300
bleschea1325
sleckena1340
sleaka1400
asteyntea1450
stancha1450
mesec1480
slockc1480
extinct1483
redd1487
to put outa1500
out-quencha1522
squench1535
extinguish1551
out1629
smoor1721
douse1842
the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > appetite > satisfying hunger or thirst > satisfy or relieve hunger or thirst [verb (transitive)] > specific thirst
slockena1340
quencha1393
sleaka1400
quenta1500
slock1827
slecken1876
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Gött.) l. 18020 Aisel haue i blend wid gall, For to sleke his threist wid-all.
a1400 in 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.
c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness l. 708 Luf lowe hem bytwene lasched so hote, Þat alle þe meschefez on mold moȝt hit not sleke.
c1440 Gesta Romanorum (Add. MS.) xxxvii. 120 As watir sleketh fire, so almesdede sleketh synne.
1781 J. Hutton Tour to Caves (ed. 2) Gloss. 96 Sleak, to quench.
1884 Lays & Leg. N. Irel. 76 Feelin' his drouth stud in need av a sleakin'.
2. To slake (lime).
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1676 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 11 714 They mix it with Chalk well sleaked.
3. intransitive. To give over or stop raining. dialect.
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the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > fine weather > [verb (intransitive)] > stop raining
sleak1781
1781 J. Hutton Tour to Caves (ed. 2) Gloss. 96.
Derivatives
sleaked adj.
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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > lime materials > [adjective] > slaked
sleakedc1450
sleckeda1533
slaked1611
slacked1700
c1450 Middle Eng. Med. Bk. (Heinrich) 217 Tak arpment, & slekyd lyme, & argoyle.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
sleakv.2
/sliːk/ dialect.
1. transitive. (See quot.)
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the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > deride, ridicule, or mock [verb (intransitive)] > make derisive gesture
bleara1340
blabber1530
to shoot out1535
pot1549
sleak1674
to make a long nose1828
to thumb one's nose1854
1674 J. Ray N. Countrey Words in Coll. Eng. Words 41 To Sleak out the tongue, to put it out by way of scorn, Chesh. [Hence in Bailey, Grose, etc.]
1886–7 in Cheshire glossaries.
2. To lick.
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the world > physical sensation > touch and feeling > touching > touching with mouth or tongue > touch with mouth or tongue [verb (transitive)] > touch with tongue > lick
lickc1000
slake1535
overlick1567
sleak1846
1846 Ballads & Songs of Ayrshire I. 112 He louped up an' sleak'd her cheek.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online September 2018).
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