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lirk Sc. and north. dial.|lɜːk|
Also 5, 9 lerk, 9 lurk.
A fold in the skin; a wrinkle.
c1400Destr. Troy 3029 Hir forhed [was] full fresshe & fre to be-holde,..Nouþer lynes ne lerkes but full lell streght. 1728Ramsay Last Sp. Miser xv, Some loo to keep their skins frae lirks. 1737W. Meston Poet. Wks. (1767) 145 The Mare..had no lirk in all her leather. 1880Antrim & Down Gloss. s.v., The child's that fat I can't get dryin' all his lerks.
transf. and fig.1723McWard Contend. for Faith 307 (Jam.) The Lord..who knows to seek out the lirks of our pretences. 1802Scott Minstr. Scott. Bord. (1803) III. 281 The bought i' the lirk o' the hill. a1835J. M. Wilson Tales of the Borders (1857) I. 207 Till I find her dead body in the lirk of the hill. 1849Ld. Cockburn Circuit Journeys (1883) 359 A..button..was found twisted in what the witness called ‘a lurk’, or fold, of the sheet. 1894Crockett Raiders (ed. 3) 63 The..herds' cothouses in the lirks of the hills.
Hence lirk v., to wrinkle.
1680Law Mem. (1818) 176–7 It [the elephant] has..a rough tannie skin, and lirking throughout all its body; the trunk of it lirks, and it contracts it, and draws it in..as it pleases. 1880Antrim & Down Gloss. s.v., The uppers of your boots is all lerked. |