▪ I. sleak, v.1 Now dial. and rare.
(sliːk)
Also 4–5 sleke.
[var. of sleck v.: cf. reke, reak reck v.]
1. trans. To quench, extinguish, assuage.
| 13.. Cursor M. 18020 (Gött.), Aisel haue i blend wid gall, For to sleke his threist wid-all. 13.. E.E. Allit. P. B. 708 Luf lowe hem bytwene lasched so hote, Þat alle þe meschefez on mold moȝt hit not sleke. a 1400 in Polit., Relig., & L. Poems (1903) 135 Þou may þaim sleke, als is a sparke when it is put in myddes þe see; & þar may no man sleke my myse bot þou. c 1440 Gesta Rom. xxxvii. 120 (Add. MS.), As watir sleketh fire, so almesdede sleketh synne. 1781 J. Hutton Tour to Caves (ed. 2) Gloss. 96 Sleak, to quench. 1884 Lays & Leg. N. Irel. 76 Feelin' his drouth stud in need av a sleakin'. |
2. To slake (lime). Hence sleaked ppl. a.
| c 1450 M.E. Med. Bk. (Heinrich) 217 Tak arpment, & slekyd lyme, & argoyle. 1676 Phil. Trans. XI. 714 They mix it with Chalk well sleaked. |
3. intr. To give over or stop raining. dial.
| 1781 J. Hutton Tour to Caves (ed. 2) Gloss. 96. |
▪ II. sleak, v.2 dial.
(sliːk)
[var. of slake v.2]
1. trans. (See quot.)
| 1674 Ray N.C. Words 41 To Sleak out the tongue, to put it out by way of scorn, Chesh. [Hence in Bailey, Grose, etc.] 1886–7 in Cheshire glossaries. |
2. To lick.
| 1846 Ballads & Songs of Ayrshire I. 112 (E.D.D.), He louped up an' sleak'd her cheek. |
▪ III. sleak(e
obs. forms of sleek a. and v.