wowke

English

Noun

wowke (plural wowkes)

  1. Obsolete form of week.
    • Geoffrey Chaucer, The Franklin's Tale.
      And in swich forme enduren a wowke or two.
      Thanne were my brother warisshed of his wo.
    • Geoffrey Chaucer, The Knight's Tale, Part II.
      Is gereful, right so chaungeth she array.
      Selde is the Friday al the wowke ylike.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for wowke in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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