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Definition of Sleeks
1. sleek [v] - See also: sleek
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sleeks
Literary usage of Sleeks
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The New Statistical Account of Scotland (1845)
"A respectable fruit-merchant mentions that, about thirty years ago, he gathered
from it sixty sleeks of pears at 50 Ibs. per sleek, the whole produce being ..."
2. The New Statistical Account of Scotland (1845)
"A respectable fruit-merchant mentions that, about thirty years ago, he gathered
from it sixty sleeks of pears at 50 lbs. per sleek, the whole produce being ..."
3. The Statistical Account of Lanarkshire (1841)
"A respectable fruit-merchant mentions that, about thirty years ago, he gathered
from it sixty sleeks of pears at 50 Ibs. per sleek, the whole produce being ..."
4. Lives of the Lord Chancellors and Keepers of the Great Seal of England: From by Baron John Campbell Campbell (1880)
"The etymon is equally apparent, whether we take the Scotch or English name for
this garment,—" breeks " being an abbreviation of " breeches," at " sleeks ..."
5. A General View of the Agriculture of Aberdeenshire: Drawn Up Under the by George Skene Keith (1811)
"... Dr. ANDERSON. who resided within a few miles of it, and is called the sleeks
... or sleeks, which gradually fills up the cavity, and rises " nearer to ..."
6. A Complete Word and Phrase Concordance to the Poems and Songs of Robert by J. B. Reid (1889)
"As lang's my tail, whare thro* the sleeks, The yellow letter'd Geordie keeks ...
The Sheep-herd sleeks his faulding slap, S. Again rejoicing Nature t They ..."
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