dial. Also loak. [repr. OE. loca enclosed place, also lock, f. root of LOUK v. to shut, lock.] A lane, a short, narrow, blind lane, a ‘cul-de-sac’; a grass road; a private lane or road.

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1787.  Marshall, Norfolk (1795), II. 383. Gloss., Loke, a close narrow lane (common).

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a. 1825.  Forby, Voc. E. Anglia, Loke, a short narrow turn-again lane.

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1860.  Gillett, Sng. Sol. in Norf. Dial., iii. 2. In the lokes and causeys I’ll seek him as my soul du love.

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1865.  W. White, E. Eng., I. 162. Loak means lane.

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1892.  P. H. Emerson, Son of Fens, 5. We were playing down the loke, and we fell out.

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  attrib.  1888.  N. & Q., Ser. VII. VI. 191/2. My house is bounded by a lokeway leading from —- to ——.

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