neuk

neuk
a) A corner; a nook. A fairy fiddler frae the neuk, [nook]<!This is an annotation in the original to explain the word "neuk" - "Robert Burns", by William Allan Neilson (1917)
b) A bend (e.g. in a coast) …the fleet, after exploring the harbours, had doubled the East Neuk, passed safely through St Andrews Bay, and entered the Firth of Tay. Chronicles of Strathearn (1896) - Rev. John Hunter.

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