Meaning of Reek | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A strong unpleasant smell.
   countable, uncountable
2. A pile, a heap (as of snow, hay, etc).
3. A hill; a mountain.
   Ireland
4. Vapour; steam; smoke; fume.
   Scotland, countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“Thou mightst as well say, I loue to walke by the Counter-gate, which is as hatefull to me, as the reeke of a Lime-kill.”

“1768, Alexander Ross (poet), "Helenore; or, the fortunate Shepherdess": a Poem in the Broad Scoth Dialect Now, by this time, the sun begins to leam, And lit the hill-heads with his morning beam; And birds, and beasts, and folk to be a-steer, And clouds o’ reek frae lum heads to appear.”

“The blue reeks of smoke from the cottages gave the whole widespread landscape an air of settled order and homely comfort.”

“The fen "dikes" have been filled-in in some districts; and the black reeks remind one of snow-reeks, except for their blackness.”

“"There'll be snow-reeks as high as houses if I wait half-an-hour longer." "There'll be no occasion for ye to wade thruff snaw-reeks at all, if ye'll go wi' me. I'll tak ye across th' warpin' till ye get to the sand-lane end, […]”

“Here a reek of straw was made, and as the reek of corn reduced in size this rose higher; there was skill in making a well balanced reek. The story of the harvest was told at the front of the thresher.”

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