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▪ I. † speek, n. Obs.
Also speeke, speake.
[Irregular var. spick n.3]
A large nail; a spike-nail.
1611Cotgr., Clou d'estoupe, a speake, or sheathing nayle; vsed in ships. c1635N. Boteler Dial. Sea Service (1685) 276 Those nails you call speeks. They are great and long iron nails with flat heads and of divers lengths. Some of the speeks are ragged which cannot be drawn out again. 1671Skinner Etymol. Ling. Angl., Speeks, vox Naut. sic autem dicuntur magni Clavi ferrei.
attrib.1633T. James Voy. 108 Their weake Speeke Ships, can hardly long endure it.
Hence † speek v.1 trans., to fasten up with spikes.
c1635N. Boteler Dial. Sea Service (1685) 277 They use with these nails to fasten a Coin..unto the deck, close to the Breech of the carriages of the great Guns to help keep them firm up.., and this is called speeking up of the Ordnance. 1711Milit. & Sea Dict. s.v., In foul Weather they use to speek up the Guns; that is, nail a Quoin to the Deck, close to the Breech of the Carriage, to help keep up the Piece strong to the Ship's side.
▪ II. † speek, v.2 Obs.—0
= peak v.3 1.
1644H. Manwayring Seaman's Dict. 68 Speek the Missen, (that is, put the yard right up and downe by the mast). 1711Milit. & Sea Dict. s.v. Spell, This Word is most commonly us'd to the Mizzen-Sail; for when they take it in, or speek it up, they say spell the Mizzen. |