rawk

== English == === Etymology 1 === Related to roke (“mist; smoke”), Swedish rök (“smoke”). Compare raggy (“foggy”). ==== Noun ==== rawk (plural rawks) (Yorkshire) A thick fog. a. 1854, Clare, manuscript poems, quoted in 1854, Anne Elizabeth Baker, Glossary of Northamptonshire Words and Phrases, page 163: The rawk o' the hills, and the mist o' the mountains, / Like the reek o'a pot, and the smoke of a kiln, / Draws further off still, while the round sun is counting / His pulses o' light o' the morning so still. ===== Derived terms ===== === Etymology 2 === Compare roke (“defect in steel”). ==== Noun ==== rawk (plural rawks) (UK, dialectal, possibly obsolete) A mark. === Etymology 3 === ==== Noun ==== rawk (uncountable) Pronunciation spelling of rock (“music genre”). ==== Verb ==== rawk (third-person singular simple present rawks, present participle rawking, simple past and past participle rawked) Pronunciation spelling of rock. === Anagrams === Wark, wark