Non-Moby-Dictionary

Some words culled from Thomas Morton's New English Canaan:

sleech, n.
1. Mud deposited by the sea or a river; soil composed of this.

2. A stretch of mud on a shore.

Hence sleechy a., slimy, muddy.


clunch, n.
1. A lump, a heavy and unshapely mass.
(Known only in mod. dialect, but prob. of considerable age.) [So EFris. klunt.]

2. A lumpish fellow, a clown, boor, lout. Cf. CLOD, CLOT. Obs. exc. dial. [So EFris. klunt.]

3. A (clumsy) hand, ‘fist’. Obs. [? Influenced by CLUTCH, or by CLENCH (see CLUNCH v.); but cf. EFris. klunt a clumsy, clodhopping foot.]

[ed. note: lumpish!]

cark, v.
1. trans. To load, burden; also, to charge or impose as a charge upon. Obs.

2. To burden with care, burden as care does; to worry, harass, vex, trouble. (Mostly in pa. pple.) Obs. or arch.; but see CARKING ppl. a.

3. intr. To be anxious, be full of anxious thought, fret oneself; to labour anxiously, to toil and moil. Obs. or arch.

4. In weakened sense (cf. CARE v.): To take thought or care, busy oneself. Obs.

A sentence: "Don't cark me with that sleechy clunch."