slocken
verb/ˈslɒkən/
Etymology From Old Norse slokna (Swedish slockna).
1
Dialectal To put out, extinguish (a fire).
2
Dialectal To quench; to allay; to slake.
- I'll take the ale, though, for it slockens my cough.1886 May 1 – July 31, Robert Louis Stevenson, Kidnapped, being Memoirs of the Adventures of David Balfour in the Year 1751: […], London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 1886, →OCLC:
- Synonyms
- slock
- Derived terms
- unslockened