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单词 colk
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Forms: Also Middle English colke, Middle English coke, 1500s couk, 1800s dialect coak, coke, cowk.
Etymology: apparently a northern English word: of uncertain origin. In form it agrees with Old Frisian kolk hole, hollow, eyehole, West Frisian kolcke, North Frisian kolok, East Frisian kolk hole or deep place in the ground filled with water, Middle Low German and Low German kolk, kulk, Middle Dutch kolck, Dutch kolk hole, abyss, whirlpool, gulf; but the connection of sense is by no means established.
Obsolete exc. dialect.
a. The core of an apple or similar fruit.
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the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > fruit or reproductive product > [noun] > parts of > core
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the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > fruit or a fruit > [noun] > parts of fruit > core
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1340 R. Rolle Pricke of Conscience 6445 Alle erthe..may likend be Til a rounde appel..Þat even in myddes has a colke, And swa it may be tille an egge yholke.
1483 Cath. Angl. 71 A Colke, erula, (interior pars pomi).
c1488 Anc. Cookery in Coll. Ordinances Royal Househ. (1790) 452 Take..gode appuls, and pyke oute the cokes of hom.
a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1994) I. xxviii. 368 It is full roten inwardly At the colke within.
1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Si/1 Ye Couk of an opple, cor.
1869 J. C. Atkinson Peacock's Gloss. Dial. Hundred of Lonsdale Coke, the core of an apple.
1888 S. O. Addy Gloss. Words Sheffield Colke, the core of an apple, etc.
b. The core of a horn, heart of wood, or the like.
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the world > animals > animal body > general parts > head and neck > [noun] > projection on head > horn > core of horn
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1781 J. Hutton Tour to Caves (ed. 2) Gloss. 88/1 Coak, the heart or pith of wood, horns, &c.
1869 J. C. Atkinson Peacock's Gloss. Dial. Hundred of Lonsdale Coke, the interior or core-part of a horn, the pith of wood, etc.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

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Forms: Also kolk.
Etymology: Identical with East Frisian kolke, which however is the Black Diver.
a. A local name for the Eider-duck.
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1587 W. Harrison Hist. Descr. Iland Brit. (new ed.) i. x. 42/1 in Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) I The Colke foule, which is little lesse than a goose.
a1690 D. Monro Descr. W. Isles (1961) 88 In this Ile [sc. Swilskeray] thair hantis ane fowl callit the Colk, little les nor ane goose, quha cummis in vair to the land to [lay] his eggis and to cleck his birdis.
1703 M. Martin Descr. W. Islands Scotl. 25.
1808 R. Forsyth Beauties Scotl. V. 243 In the islands there is..a migratory bird, called by Martin colk, by others eider duck.
b. See quot. (Perhaps an error.)
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1833 J. Rennie Montagu's Ornithol. Dict. (new ed.) Colk, a name for the King Eyder.
1864 J. C. Atkinson List Provinc. Names Birds
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