steck
Pronunciations
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/stɛk/
Noun
A piece or an item.
Usage- Northern-England
- Scotland
- Obsolete
- Examples
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a steck o' bread
Two stecks of double Demy-ostage to hang about the choir.
More examples (3)
Delivered to the Queen's graces tailor one steck of purpure velvet;
Four stecks of Romany wine;
The petitioner, to his great charge and expenses, had set up one loom for working at Damase, a thing never before attempted nor practiced in this country and by his own ingenuity and industry without any foreign breeding, being a born native of the kingdom.. he had wrought several pieces or stecks of it, which he had shown to several of the Counsel.
Word forms
steckssteksteikstikesteeksteaksteykstykstaig