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slockens

slockens is the third-person singular simple present indicative of slocken.

Meaning of slocken

Verb

slocken (third-person singular simple present slockens, present participle slockening, simple past and past participle slockened)

  1. (dialectal, transitive) To put out, extinguish (a fire).
  2. (dialectal, transitive) To quench; to allay; to slake.
    • I'll take the ale, though, for it slockens my cough.1886 May 1 – July 31, Robert Louis Stevenson, Kidnapped, being Memoirs of the Adventures of David Balfour in the Year 1751: […], London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 1886, →OCLC
    Synonyms:
    slock

Questions about slockens

What is slockens the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Slockens is the third-person singular simple present indicative of slocken.

Words near slockens in the dictionary

  1. slock
  2. slocked
  3. slocken
  4. slockened
  5. slockening
  6. slockens
  7. slocking
  8. slocking stone
  9. slocking stones
  10. slocks
  11. SLOCs

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