a-soak, advb. phr.
(əˈsəʊk)
[a prep.1 + soak.]
Soaking. Also fig.
| 1609 C. Butler Fem. Mon. (1634) 161 Asoak in milk-warm fair water. 1636 Featly Clavis Myst. iv. 52 Laying our hearts asoake in teares. a 1746 Holdsworth On Virgil (1768) 50 (Jod.) Seed which they lay asoak. |