Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
slock for slack.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive, dialectal To
put out ,extinguish (a fire). - verb transitive, dialectal To
quench ; toallay ; toslake .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Sonachan and the baron-bailie dipped their beaks in the jugs, and with lifted heads, as fowls slocken their thirst, they let the wine slip slowly down their throats, glucking in a gluttonous ecstasy.
John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn Neil Munro
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"Braxy and oatmeal, Hamish," says he, "there's many a lusty lad reared on worse; but we'll be hivin 'tatties and herrin' for a change, and plenty o 'sour milk tae slocken the drouth o' it."
The McBrides A Romance of Arran John Sillars
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Ye're like the cow-couper o 'Swinton, ye'll no slocken.
The Proverbs of Scotland Alexander Hislop 1836
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O that you would do it, even for his sake that left you his heart’s blood to slocken that fire which will burn both the heavens and the earth: therefore hear, hear!
The Pulpit Of The Reformation, Nos. 1, 2, 3 and 4. John Welch
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