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English

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Etymology 1

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Noun

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seck (plural secks)

  1. (chiefly Scotland, obsolete) Alternative form of sack
    • 1884, David Grant, Lays and Legends of the North: And Other Poems and Songs, Humorous and Grave, Original and Translated, page 3:
      [] barn-fans, an' flails, an' fleers, / An' canasses, an' secks; / An' cheeks o' doors, an' doors themsel's, / Wi' broken ban's an' snecks;  []
    • 1884, Streatfeild, Lin. and Danes, 264, 357:
      The kittlings ligging on the secks []
    • 1894, John Trafford Clegg, David's Loom: A Story of Rochdale's Life in the Early Years of the Nineteenth Century, page 30:
      ... a rough seck undher him, a bit o' flannel hardly coverin' him above, an' he looked like dyeath.
    • 1912 [????], Walter William Skeat, English dialects from the eighth century to the present day. Repr, page 117:
      This seck is elding to keep us fra starving!

Etymology 2

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Adjective

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seck (comparative more seck, superlative most seck)

  1. Only used in rent seck

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Middle English

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Noun

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seck

  1. Alternative form of sak