cloke

English

Noun

cloke (plural clokes)

1. Archaic spelling of cloak.

Verb

cloke (third-person singular simple present clokes, present participle cloking, simple past and past participle cloked)

1. Archaic spelling of cloak.
   • 1926, The Book of Common Prayer of the Church of Ireland, The Order for Morning Prayer

     the Scripture moveth us in sundry places to acknowledge and confess our manifold sins and wickedness; and that we should not dissemble nor cloke them before the face of Almighty God our heavenly Father; but confess them with an humble, lowly, penitent, and obedient heart

Anagrams

• Locke, eckol, locke

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old Northern French cloque, from Medieval Latin clocca, from Proto-Celtic *klokkos, ultimately imitative. Doublet of clokke.

Alternative forms

• clok, kloke

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈklɔːk(ə)/

Noun

cloke

2. cloak, cape

Descendants

• English: cloak
• Scots: cloak

References

• “clōke, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-23.

Etymology 2

Unknown; forms with /tʃ/ are probably influenced by clicchen, which this noun may ultimately be related to.

Alternative forms

• cleche, cloche, clouche, clowche, cluke, kloke

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkloːk(ə)/, /ˈkluːk(ə)/, /ˈkloːtʃ(ə)/, /ˈkluːtʃ(ə)/

Noun

cloke (plural clokes)

2. claw, talon
3. clutches, grasp

Usage notes

This noun is usually only found in the plural.

Descendants

• English: clutch, clutches (in part)
• Scots: cleuk, cluke, cluik

References

• “clọ̄ke, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-23.

Etymology 3

From Middle Dutch clocke.

Noun

cloke

2. Alternative form of clokke

Picard

Etymology

From Early Medieval Latin clocca, of Gaulish/Celtic origin, from Proto-Celtic *klokkos (“bell”) either onomatopoeic or from Proto-Indo-European *klek- (“to laugh, cackle”).

Noun

cloke f (plural clokes)

1. bell

Related terms

• clotcher