Ake

Source : Wright, Joseph English Dialect Dictionary

AKE, sb. Cor. [ēk.] Cor.1 Ake, a groove in a stone used for an anchor (peculiar to Cornwall) to receive a rope or iron band to prevent it from slipping. Mousehole fishermen; Cor.2

Source : Century Dictionary

Source : Glossary of the Cornish Dialect, & c. Dolly Pentreath 1882

Source : Glossary of the Cornish Dialect, & c. Dolly Pentreath 1882

Glossary of words in use in Cornwall by Courtney, M. A. (Margaret Ann), 1834-1920 Publication date 1880

The ancient language and the dialect of Cornwall : with an enlarged glossary of Cornish provincial words : also an appendix, containing a list of writers on Cornish dialect, and additional information about Dolly Pentreath, the last known person who spoke the ancient Cornish as her mother tongue by Jago, Fred. W. P. (Frederick William Pearce), b. 1817

Publication date 1882