Posted by Dave Thewlis on April 28, 2004 at 21:35:00 from 4.21.103.66 user dthewlis.
In Reply to: Re: Thorstein on the Mere posted by John Nichols on April 28, 2004 at 18:51:52:
Surely a form of "slake" as in "to slake one's thirst" albeit an archaic or lost form. Future AND past variant it appears.