meak

English

Etymology

From Middle English meeke, probably from Old Norse mækir (“sword”), from Proto-Germanic *mēkijaz. Cognate with Icelandic mækir, Old English mēċe.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -iːk

Noun

meak (plural meaks)

1. (dialectal or obsolete) A hook with a long handle; scythe.
   • 1557 February 13 (Gregorian calendar), Thomas Tusser, A Hundreth Good Pointes of Husbandrie, London: […] Richard Tottel, →OCLC; republished London: […] Robert Triphook, […], and William Sancho, […], 1810, →OCLC:

     A meak for the pease , and to swinge up the brake

Anagrams

• kame, make