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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Variant of kyack.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In Burma, a Buddhist temple.
Wiktionary
- n. Canada A type of small freshwater fish, also known as the alewife.
Examples
“When they enter into their kiack, that is to say, their holy place or temple, at the doore their is a great iarre of water with a cocke or a ladle in it, and there they wash their feet; and then they enter in, and lift vp their hands to their heads, first to their preacher, and then to the Sunne, and so sit downe.”
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
“They keepe their feasts by the Moone: and when it is new Moone they keepe their greatest feast: and then the people send rice and other things to that kiack or church of which they be; and there all the”
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
“They keepe their feasts by the Moone: and when it is new Moone they keepe their greatest feast: and then the people send rice and other things to that kiack or church of which they be; and there all the Tallipoies doe meete which be of that Church, and eate the victuals which are sent them.”
“_kiack_ or church which they frequent, where all the talapoins belonging to it meet and eat the victuals that are sent.”
A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 07
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