Quiet; tame.
Ready; prompt.
simple past of speak
And God ſpake vnto Noah, ſaying, / Goe foorth of the Arke, thou, and thy wife, and thy ſonnes, and thy ſonnes wiues with thee:[…]
Alternative form of spoke (of a wheel).
A type of wagon on rails used for carrying workers in and out of a colliery.
A surname.
From Middle English spake, spak, from Old Norse spakr (“wise, gentle, quiet”), from Proto-Germanic *spakaz (“wise, clever”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)peǵ- (“to understand; intelligent, attentive”)...
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