Definition of Sloken

1. to quench [v -ED, -ING, -S] - See also: quench

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sloken

slogger
sloggers
slogging
sloggy
slogo
slogos
slogs
sloid
sloids
slojd
slojds
sloka
sloka meter
slokas
sloke
sloken (current term)
slokened
slokening
slokens
slombry
slood
sloom
sloomed
sloomier
sloomiest
slooming
slooms
sloomy
sloop
sloop of war

Literary usage of Sloken

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Scandinavian Loan-words in Middle English by Erik Björkman (1900)
"In this connection it may be pointed out that ME sloken ... and he considers past partic. sloken to be from this verb, ..."

2. Scandinavian Loan-words in Middle English by Erik Björkman (1900)
"In this connection it may be pointed out that ME sloken 'to extinguish' cannot be related to, or borrowed from, Dan. slukke 'to extinguish'; the 0. ..."

3. The Royal Military Calendar, Or Army Service and Commission Book: Containing by Philippart, John, 1784-1875 (1820)
"3, constructed by the enemy beyond the sloken, to endeavour to cross the bridge over that stream with the fugitives, and then to assault the redoubts within ..."

4. The Royal Military Calendar, Or Army Service and Commission Book: Containing by Philippart, John, 1784-1875 (1820)
"3, constructed by the enemy beyond the sloken, to endeavour to cross the bridge over that stream with the fugitives, and then to assault the redoubts within ..."

5. A Complete Word and Phrase Concordance to the Poems and Songs of Robert by J. B. Reid (1889)
"From the white blossom'd sloe my dear Chloe requested, Their hydra drouth did sloken. . On dining with Doer. Sloping. How sweetly wind thy sloping dales, 5. ..."

6. History of the Wars of the French Revolution, from the Breaking Out of the by Edward Baines (1818)
"Colonel Gillespie having possessed himself almost instantaneously of the bridge over the sloken, attacked and carried one of the redoubts within the lines. ..."

7. A Supplementary English Glossary by Thomas Lewis Owen Davies (1881)
"The term ie now unknown in the school, even by tradition. BLOOD-sloken, blood-soaked. The blood that they have shed will hide no longer In the ..."

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