Middle English Dictionary Entry
rōk(e n.(1)
Entry Info
| Forms | rōk(e n.(1) |
| Etymology | ON *rauk: cp. OI mjall-roka, Icel. rok, roka; also cp. MDu. roke, rooc(k. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
Note: Cp. rek(e n.(3).
1.
(a) A mist, vapor; drizzling rain; (b) smoke, fumes; (c) ~ peni, = reke-peni, s.v. rek(e n.(3)(d).
Associated quotations
a
- c1330(?c1300) Bevis (Auch)125/2647 : Eueri seue ȝer ones..comeþ a roke & a stink Out of þe water.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)436 : Roke [Win: Rok], myste: Nebula.
- 1543(1464) Hardyng Chron.B (Grafton)p.360 : The king had neuer but tempest foule & raine As longe as he was ay in Wales grounde, Rockes & mystes, windes & stormes certaine.
- a1550(?a1475) Otterburn (Cleo C.4)202 : The bloode from ther bassonetts Ranne, as the roke doth in the rayne.
b
- a1325(c1250) Gen.& Ex.(Corp-C 444)1163 : To-ward sodome he sag ðe roke And ðe brinfires stinken smoke.
- a1450 Mandev.(3) (BodeMus 116)105/16 : There comyth out of that place a foul fer and a foul roke with so meche foul stynk that no man may sustene hym there.
c
- (1292) Acc.R.Dur.in Sur.Soc.100490 : De 40 s. 8 d. rec. de Rokpen' de eodem termino.