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▪ I. † spake, v. Obs. rare.
In 3 spakie, 5 spak-.
[f. spak- spack a. Cf. ON. and Icel. spekja, Norw. dial. spekkja, spækje, MSw. späkia, Da. spæge to quieten, tame, etc.]
1. intr. To hasten (to do something).
12..Prayer to our Lady 14 in O.E. Misc., Hwo se under⁓stant wel his ende-dai wel ȝeorne he mot spakie to donde sunne awei fram him, and fele almesse makie.
2. refl. To calm oneself, become calm.
a1400–50Alexander 237 Þat myld..hire spakid with his speche & spird of him wordis.
▪ II. spake, n. S. Wales.|speɪk|
[Of unknown origin: perh. var. spoke n.]
A string of rail-mounted wagons or trolleys used in coal mines to transport men.
1935Trans. Inst. Mining Engineers LXXXVIII. 384 In mines where the men are brought out in spakes, provision should be made for their protection from the cold intake air. Ibid. XC. 140 A spake is composed of a number of flat trolleys fitted with wooden seats placed at intervals at right angles to the length of the trolley, and consequently at right angles to the slant. 1971Guardian 6 July 1/5 A colliery accident in which an underground train ran out of control... It was remarkable the train—known as a spake—did not leave the rails. 1979Times 29 Dec. 12/5 The seams lay, in places, three miles below ground. To reach them by ‘spake’, the man-carrying wagons, entailed a journey of half an hour.
▪ III. spake
obs. var. spack a.; obs., poet., or arch. f. pa. tense of speak v.; Sc. f. spoke n. |