yack

noun — 2 senses

noun

/jak/

Etymology Dialectal form.

If 't ash tree buds before 't yack, […]1877, Gibson, Leg. and Notes 50
Awd stiff yack nut eeasy bended, […]1878, John Castillo, Poems in the North Yorkshire Dialect, section 25:

noun

UK, Obsolete A watch (timepiece).

I have got the Yacks, so do not come it. Fight cocum.1859, Snowden's magistrates assistant, page 498:
[…] and away I scampered with the tiddlywink-table, while Teddy Limber […] frisked the yokel of his yack and skin.1863, George William MacArthur Reynolds, The Mysteries of the Court of London, volume 3, page 86:

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