neuk
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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He ended; and kebars sheuk Aboon the chorus roar; While frighted rattons backward leuk, And seek the benmost bore; A fairy fiddler frae the neuk, He skirl’d out—encore!
From The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham by Burns, Robert
It is a lovely neuk, this Braehead, preserved almost as it was two hundred years ago.
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 6 by Mabie, Hamilton Wright
And make my bed in the Collier’s neuk, And lie down wi’ my Collier Laddie.
From The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham by Burns, Robert
The girl walked to the neuk window and put her hand on the old wheel.
From The Shadow of a Crime A Cumbrian Romance by Caine, Hall, Sir
We don't wonder Walter Scott carried her off in the neuk of his plaid, and played himself with her for hours.
From Stories of Childhood by Johnson, Rossiter
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