dawk
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Although the hawks were originally in the majority, according to the Post, opinions finally merged, and everybody joined Dean Rusk as a "dawk or a hove."
From Time Magazine Archive
I have requested the post-master to send all our letters to Fyzabad by the regular dawk from Thursday next, the 13th.
From A Journey through the Kingdom of Oude, Volumes I & II by William Sleeman
Fust theah hosses got into a loco patch, an' one dawk night walked oveh a clift thinkin' it were thu aidge o' a sun crack.
From The Song of the Wolf by Frank Mayer
A boat for the conveyance of letters in India; dawk being the Hindostanee for mail.
From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Sir Edward Belcher
A sharp iron nail unseen might "dawk" the skin off an unwary hand.
From The Life of the Fields by Richard Jefferies
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