Definitions
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Obsolete spelling of
choke . - noun Obsolete spelling of
choke .
Etymologies
Sorry, no etymologies found.
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word choake.
Examples
-
Hartford-shire, Kent and Surrey: for by that meanes neither shall the land binde and choake the Corne, nor shall the wéede so ouer-runne it, but that the Husbandman may with good ease helpe to strengthen and clense it, the many furrowes both giuing him many passages, whereby he may correct those enormities, and also in such sort conuaying away the water and other moistures, that there cannot be made any land more fruitfull.
-
Hartford-shire, Essex, Middlesex, Kent and Surry: for this soile being for the most part subiect to much moisture and hardnesse, if it should be laid in great lands, according to the manner of the North parts, it would ouer-burden, choake and confound the séed which is throwne into it.
-
Of Peares your golden Peare, your Katherine-Peare, your Lording, and such like, are the first, and your stone-Peare, Warden-Peare, and choake-Peare, those which indure longest.
-
That place is most dangerous when that there is any storme, being no landing place so long as the sandy bancks are under watter; and when the wind blowes, that sand doth rise by a strang kind of whirling that are able to choake the passengers.
Voyages of Peter Esprit Radisson Pierre Esprit Radisson 1673
-
No noysome smells t 'infect, and choake the aire; breeding diseases envious to the Faire.
-
Will choake our foes, though bullets hit them not.
-
Nicotiana together, and fill up the hole again: for it is so small, as that if you should put in but four or five seeds the earth would choake it: and if the time be dry, you must water the place easily some five days after: And when the herb is grown out of the earth, inasmuch as every seed will have put up his sprout and stalk, and that the small thready roots are intangled the one within the other, you must with
Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce E. R. Billings
-
'beating and reviling her husband, and egging her children to healp her, bidding them knock him in the head, and wishing his victuals might choake him.'"[294a]" In 1637 in Salem, 'Whereas Dorothy the wyfe of John Talbie hath not only broak that peace & loue, wch ought to hauve beene both betwixt them, but also hath violentlie broke the king's peace, by frequent laying hands upon hir husband to the danger of his
Woman's Life in Colonial Days Carl Holliday
-
3306: Cannot remoue, nor choake the strong Conception
-
2679: My teares will choake me, if I ope my mouth.
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.