Steck

The famed climber Ueli Steck, the 'Swiss Machine,' died in a climbing accident near Mount Everest.

a steck o' bread

Two stecks of double Demy-ostage to hang about the choir.

Delivered to the Queen's graces tailor one steck of purpure velvet;

Four stecks of Romany wine;

The petitioner, to his great charge and expenses, had set up one loom for working at Damase, a thing never before attempted nor practiced in this country and by his own ingenuity and industry without any foreign breeding, being a born native of the kingdom.. he had wrought several pieces or stecks of it, which he had shown to several of the Counsel.