slocken

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English

Etymology

From Old Norse slokna (Swedish slockna).

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slocken (third-person singular simple present slockens, present participle slockening, simple past and past participle slockened)

  1. (transitive, dialectal) To put out, extinguish (a fire).
  2. (transitive, dialectal) To quench; to allay; to slake.
    • 1880 Robert Louis Stevenson. Kidnapped
      I'll take the ale, though, for it slockens my cough.

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