Pleck

//plɛk// name, noun

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Definitions

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

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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