Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The corner of a plaid, folded over so as to form a pocket.
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Examples
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But at the last he gets a bottle from his plaid-neuk and holds it up to her; whereupon she came at once into
Lay Morals 2005
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That which he had called cubical, I had never had much doubt of; sure enough it was a little Bible, to carry in a, plaid-neuk.
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But at the last he gets a bottle from his plaid-neuk and holds it up to her; whereupon she came at once into a composition, and the pair sat, drinking of the bottle, and daffing and laughing together, on a mound of heather.
Lay Morals Robert Louis Stevenson 1872
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I had never had much doubt of; sure enough it was a little Bible, to carry in a plaid-neuk.
Kidnapped Robert Louis Stevenson 1872
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