different between cloke vs clocke

English

Noun

cloke (plural clokes)

1. Archaic spelling of cloak.

Verb

cloke (third-person singular simple present clokes, present participle cloking, simple past and past participle cloked)

1. Archaic spelling of cloak.

Anagrams

• Locke, locke

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch clocke.

Noun

cloke

2. Alternative form of clokke

Etymology 2

From Old Northern French cloque, from Medieval Latin clocca, from Proto-Celtic *klokkos, ultimately imitative. Doublet of clokke.

Alternative forms

• clok, kloke

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kl??k(?)/

Noun

cloke

2. cloak, cape

Descendants

• English: cloak
• Scots: cloak

References

• “cl?ke, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-23.

Etymology 3

Unknown.

Alternative forms

• cleche, cloche, clouche, clowche, cluke, kloke

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?klo?k(?)/, /?klu?k(?)/, /?klo?t?(?)/, /?klu?t?(?)/

Noun

cloke (plural clokes)

2. claw, talon
3. clutches, grasp

Usage notes

This noun is usually only found in the plural.

Descendants

• English: clutch, clutches (in part)
• Scots: cleuk, cluke, cluik

References

• “cl??ke, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-23.

Picard

Etymology

From Medieval Latin clocca, of Gaulish/Celtic origin, from Proto-Celtic *klokkos (“bell”) either onomatopoeic or from Proto-Indo-European *klek- (“to laugh, cackle”).

Noun

cloke f (plural clokes)

1. bell

Related terms

• clotcher

English

Noun

clocke (plural clockes)

1. Obsolete spelling of clock

Anagrams

• Elcock, cockle

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch *klokka, from Old Northern French cloque (“bell”), from Medieval Latin clocca, probably of Celtic origin, from Proto-Celtic *klokkos (“bell”) (compare Welsh cloch, Irish clog), from Proto-Indo-European *kl?g-, *kl?g- (onomatopoeia).

Noun

clocke f

1. bell
2. something bell-shaped

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

• Dutch: klok
• Limburgish: klók

Further reading

• “clocke”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929) , “clocke (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, ?ISBN, page I

Middle English

Noun

clocke

1. Alternative form of clokke