lauckès
Yola edit
Etymology edit
From Middle English lac, from Old English lāc, from Proto-West Germanic *laik.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
lauckès
- locks (fastener)
- 1867, “VERSES IN ANSWER TO THE WEDDEEN O BALLYMORE”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 98:
- Baakhooses an lauckès war aul ee a zweal.
- [Ovens and locks were all in the swale.]
References edit
- Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 98