sleck

“About two in the morning she asked for a little champagne; her mind was so clear that, after exchanging a few sentences with her nephew in the Lancashire dialect and drinking her small glass of champagne, she said with a smile, “It's good sleck,” and lay still for a while.”

Philip Gilbert Hamerton

“I'm ommost chok'd wi 'smithy sleck, (4) the wind it is so hoigh.”

Yorkshire Dialect Poems (1673-1915) and traditional poems

“About two in the morning she asked for a little champagne; her mind was so clear that, after exchanging a few sentences with her nephew in the Lancashire dialect and drinking her small glass of champagne, she said with a smile, "It's good sleck," and lay still for a while.”

Philip Gilbert Hamerton An Autobiography, 1834-1858, and a Memoir by His Wife, 1858-1894

“A toothed sleck stone," I take to mean a "jagged whetstone," very unfit for its purpose; but what is the force of the term "as bullish?”

Notes and Queries, Number 74, March 29, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.

“A toothless satire is as improper as a toothed sleck stone, and as bullish.”

Notes and Queries, Number 74, March 29, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.

““They let me lie, Lucy,” he was crying, “they let me lie two mortal hours on th’ sleck afore they took me outer th’ stall.”

The Prussian Officer and Other Stories

“Why mucky watter 'll sleck as weel as clean, give us howd of a pailful”

Yorksher Puddin' A Collection of the Most Popular Dialect Stories from the Pen of John Hartley