neuk

  1. Noun.  (context, Scotland) A corner; a nook. ''A fairy fiddler frae the neuk, [nook]'' - "Robert Burns", by William Allan Neilson (1917).
  2. Noun.  (context, Scotland) 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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