▪ I. † quek, queke Obs. rare.
[Of obscure origin.]
A chequer or chess-board; some game played on this. Also queke-board.
| [1376 in Riley Lond. Mem. (1868) 395 A pair of tables on the outside of which was painted a chequer-board that is called a ‘quek’. The complainants played with the defendant Nicholas at quek.] 1426 Lydg. De Guil. Pilgr. 11198 Rede..On thyng that ys nat worth a lek; Pleye at the keylës & the quek. 1477 Act 17 Edw. IV, c. 3 Diversez novelx ymaginez jeuez appellez Cloishe Kaylez half kewle Hondyn & Hondoute & Quekeborde. a 1500 in Freeman Exeter (1887) 161 Yong peple..within the said cloistre have exercised unlawful games as the toppe, queke, penny prykke. |
▪ II. quek
var. of queck v.1 Obs.
▪ III. quek(e
obs. forms of quick.