English Explanatory Dictionary

pleck

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A plot of ground.
name
  1. A hamlet in Batcombe parish, Dorset, England, previously in West Dorset district (OS grid ref ST6104).
  2. A small area of Hazelbury Bryan, Dorset, previously in North Dorset district (OS grid ref ST7408).
  3. A hamlet in Marnhull parish, Dorset, previously in North Dorset district (OS grid ref ST7717).
  4. A suburb in the Metropolitan Borough of Walsall, West Midlands, England (OS grid ref SO9997).

Pronunciation

/plɛk/

Word forms

pleck plecks

Etymology

From Middle English pleck, plek, perhaps a variation of plack, or perhaps from Middle Dutch plecke, ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *plakkju, from Proto-Germanic *plakjō (“spot, stain”). Cognate with West Frisian plak (“place, location, spot”), Dutch plek (“place, spot, patch”), Low German Plakk, Plakke (“spot, place, patch”). More at patch.

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