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Definition of Slockened
1. slocken [v] - See also: slocken
Lexicographical Neighbors of Slockened
Literary usage of Slockened
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publications by English Dialect Society (1884)
"... is a round piece of iron coupling to fasten the body of the cart to the shafts.
slockened (gl. slok-nd), satiated ; saturated; soaked, ..."
2. Ringan Gilhaize; Or, The Covenanters by John Galt (1823)
"The drouth of cauld iron will be slockened in men's blood ere we hear the end o't."
" 'Deed," replied my grandfather, " it's very alarming; Lucky, here, ..."
3. Great Short Stories: A New Collection of Famous Examples from the by William Patten, Broughton Brandenburg, P.F. Collier & Son Corporation (1906)
"... that slockened naething. We aye thocht it but to thun'er on the morn; but the
morn cam', and the morn's morning, and it was aye the same uncanny weather ..."
4. The Stickit Minister: And Some Common Men by Samuel Rutherford Crockett (1894)
"Ye're in the way o' being slockened noo! An' in a wee there'll be a bonny lad
wi' silver buttons comin' up that road to look for ye. ..."
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