Obsolete spelling of ache.
... for let our finger ake, / And it endues our other heathfull members — Othello (Quarto 1), Shakespeare, 1622
Obsolete spelling of ache.
The ake of months of a growing firenlust became a rising queem til at last there was the burst of loosing that almost made his knees buckle.
The groove made in a stone forming part of a killock.
Returning with the timber portions of his anchor, to the stone, he would assemble all together […] The ake would be the slightly hollowed part of the stone that fitted closely to the sides […]
forever
The answer given was : — " Friends, this is the reply of the Maori : we shall fight on ake, ake, ake, for ever, for ever, for ever."
A Nigerian Plateau language.
From Middle English aken, from Old English acan (“to ache”), from Proto-West Germanic *akan, from Proto-Germanic *akaną (“to ache”). More at ache.
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