name
Meaning 1
A surname.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
steck
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Pronunciation
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/stɛk/
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rhymes with -ɛk
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CMU ARPABET: S T EH1 K Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
A piece or an item.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Northern-England, Scotland, obsolete
Examples
- a steck o' bread
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: hunk, portion, bit, chip, chunk, tranche, clip, crumb, crumbling, cutting, flake, fleak, fragment, lump, mammock, ort, piece, piecemeal, scrap, scraplet, slice, snead, snippet, steck
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
From Middle English stic, from Middle Dutch stucke, sticke, from Old Dutch *stukki, *stikki, from Proto-West Germanic *stukkī, from Proto-Germanic *stukkiją (“piece”). Cognate with Danish stykke (“piece”), Dutch stuk (“piece”), Faroese stykki (“piece”), German Stück (“piece”), Icelandic stykki (“piece”), Norwegian stykke (“piece”), Swedish stycke (“piece”). Doublet of shtick and shtuka. See also stock.
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