seck

See also: Seck

English

Etymology 1

Noun

seck (plural secks)

1. (chiefly Scotland, obsolete) Alternative form of sack
   • 1884, David Grant, Lays and Legends of the North: And Other Poems and Songs, Humorous and Grave, Original and Translated, page 3:

     […] barn-fans, an' flails, an' fleers, / An' canasses, an' secks; / An' cheeks o' doors, an' doors themsel's, / Wi' broken ban's an' snecks;  […]

   • 1884, Streatfeild, Lin. and Danes, 264, 357:

     The kittlings ligging on the secks […]

   • 1894, John Trafford Clegg, David's Loom: A Story of Rochdale's Life in the Early Years of the Nineteenth Century, page 30:

     ... a rough seck undher him, a bit o' flannel hardly coverin' him above, an' he looked like dyeath.

   • 1912 [????], Walter William Skeat, English dialects from the eighth century to the present day. Repr, page 117:

     This seck is elding to keep us fra starving!

Etymology 2

Adjective

seck (comparative more seck, superlative most seck)

1. Only used in rent seck

References

• “seck”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• Joseph Wright, editor (1905), “SECK”, in The English Dialect Dictionary: […], volume V (R–S), London: Henry Frowde, […], publisher to the English Dialect Society, […]; New York, N.Y.: G[eorge] P[almer] Putnam’s Sons, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• Ecks, ksec

Middle English

Noun

seck

1. Alternative form of sak