dawk

• IPA^(key): /dɔːk/
• Rhymes: -ɔːk

Ultimately from Old English dalc (“pin”). More at dalk.

dawk (third-person singular simple present dawks, present participle dawking, simple past and past participle dawked)

1. (transitive, UK dialectal) To drive a sharp instrument into; incise with a jerk; puncture.
2. (transitive) To cut or mark with an incision; gash.
3. (transitive, UK dialectal) To dig up weeds.

dawk (plural dawks)

1. A hollow or crack in timber.
   • 1683, Joseph Moxon, Mechanick Exercises

     THE DAWK was a slight concavity or depression in the body of the cast type , made by a corresponding convexity in the mould

dawk (plural dawks)

1. Alternative form of dak (“Indian post system”)

dawk (plural dawks)

1. Archaic form of dhak (“the tree Butea monosperma”).

dawk

1. plural of dak