louk

See also: Louk

English

Alternative forms

• look

Etymology 1

From Middle English louken, lowken, from Old English lūcan (“to pluck out, pull up”), from Proto-West Germanic *lūkan, from Proto-Germanic *lūkaną, *leukaną (“to break, pluck, pull”), from Proto-Indo-European *lūǵ- (“to break”). Cognate with Middle Low German lūken (“to pull, pull up”), German liechen (“to pluck”), Danish luge (“to hatch”), Latin luctor (“wrestle, fight”, verb).

Verb

louk (third-person singular simple present louks, present participle louking, simple past and past participle louked)

1. (transitive) To weed; pull up weeds.

Etymology 2

From Middle English louken, from Old English lūcan (“to close, lock”), from Proto-West Germanic *lūkan, from Proto-Germanic *lūkaną (“to close, lock”), from Proto-Indo-European *lewg- (“to bend, turn”). More at lock.

Verb

louk (third-person singular simple present louks, present participle louking, simple past and past participle louked)

1. Alternative form of lock
   • 1873, Alexander Craig, The Poetical Works of Alexander Craig of Rose-Craig, 1604-1631: Now First Collected, page 8:

     Thou die heere for want of Bed, Food, and Fyres: Then who shall bee seene, To louk thy dead Eine? And intombe thee, I weine, As cuftome requyres?

   • ????, published 1887, Alexander Montgomerie, Poems, page 148:

     With cair ouercum, And sorou, vhen the sun goes out of sight, Hings doun his head, And droups as dead, And will not spread, Bot louks his leavis throu langour of the nicht,

Etymology 3

From Middle English louk, louke, loke, of uncertain origin.

Alternative forms

• lowk

Noun

louk (plural louks)

1. (obsolete) An accomplice; partner; comrade.

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈlou̯k]

Noun

louk

1. genitive plural of louka

Livonian

Etymology

Borrowing from Latvian lauks.

Noun

louk

1. field