Posted by John Nichols on April 28, 2004 at 18:51:52 from 165.91.196.181 user Mcneacail.
In Reply to: Thorstein on the Mere posted by Ed Kiser on April 27, 2004 at 21:12:20:
To quench or allay (thirst).
Slocken - a new word on me in TM
I have just started reading it. It is a bit hard going at times.
a1340 HAMPOLE Psalter cxlii. 7 Slokyn my threst. 1423 JAS. I Kingis Q. 69 My drye thrist with teris sall I slokin. 1535 COVERDALE Wisd. xi. 4 Their thirst [was] slockened out of ye harde stone. 1584 HUDSON Judith III. (1613) 37 That bottell sweet..serued.. not to slocken thirst. a1585 MONTGOMERIE Cherrie & Slae 444 one Slae..May satisfie to slokkin Thy drouth now. 1786 BURNS Dining w. Ld. Daer ii, When mighty Squireships..Their hydra-drouth did sloken. 1824 SCOTT Redgauntlet ch. xiii, Get the blue bowl;..that will sloken all their drouth.