douk

/ dʊk /

noun

1. a variant spelling of dook 1 dook 2

Example Sentences

"Gar douk, gar douk," the King he cried, "Gar douk for gold and fee; O wha will douk for Erl Richard's sake,65 Or wha will douk for me?"

From Project Gutenberg

They douked in at ae weil-heid, And out aye at the other; "We can douk nae mair for Erl Richard, Although he were our brother."

From Project Gutenberg

They left the douking on the day, And douk'd upon the night; And where that sackless knight lay slain,85 The candles burned bright.

From Project Gutenberg

Near it is Yordas Cave—once the haunt of a giant; Gatekirk Cave is distant about half an hour’s walk; Douk Hole is in the neighbourhood of Ingleton; and in all the region, and over the Westmoreland border, there is a highly picturesque succession of caves, ravines, glens, and torrents dashing through rocky chasms, and of all the magnificent phenomena only to be seen amid the limestone.

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The sun is blazing out, and our bushman winds his bright-coloured douk round his head, and tramps round the angle of a jutting rock, staff in hand.

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