▪ I. sloke1
(sləʊk)
Also 9 sloak.
[var. of slawk.]
= slawk 1 and 2.
| 1777 Lightfoot Flora Scotica II. 967 Ulva umbilicalis..Navel Laver, Anglis. Sloke or Slake, Scotis. Upon the sea rocks frequent. Ibid. 970 Ulva Lactuca,..Lettuce-Laver, or Oyster-Green, Anglis. Green Sloke, Scotis. 1845 Gosse Ocean i. (1849) 41 Mr. Drummond informs us that P[orphyra] laciniata, called Sloke in Ireland, is gathered during the winter months only. 1851 Art Jrnl. Illustr. Catal., Veg. World ii. p. iv, The so-called Irish moss, which is the Chondrus crispus, and the Ulva or sloke, both British plants. 1876 Mid-Yorkshire Gloss. s.v., A farmyard pond will be alluded to as being ‘all slime and sloak’. |
| Comb. 1907 D. S. Shorter Collected Poems 6 He saw one gleam of foam-white arms, Of sea-green eyes, of sloak brown hair. |
▪ II. sloke2
Also shloke.
Anglicized form of sloka.
| 1788 Asiatick Researches I. 127 Thus speak the following Slokes from the Dhormo Onoosaason. 1841 R. N. Cust in Haileybury Observer III. 21 The history of the coward, of which this is the first sloke. 1881 E. Arnold Indian Poetry 2 Dhoyi holds the listener still With his shlokes of subtle skill. |