steek

• steik

From Scots steek, from Middle English steke (“to enclose”) and Middle Dutch steken (“to stitch”). Noun from Scots steek (“stitch”), from Middle Dutch steek (“stitch”). More at stick, stitch.

• IPA^(key): /stiːk/

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steek (third-person singular simple present steeks, present participle steeking, simple past and past participle steeked)

1. To stitch (sew with a needle).
2. To shut or close.
3. (knitting) To use a technique for knitting garments such as sweaters in the round without interruption for openings or sleeves until the end.

steek (plural steeks)

1. (Scotland) A stitch.
   • 1934, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Grey Granite (A Scots Quair), Polygon, published 2006, page 565:

     Ake Ogilvie told the tale the next day to Ma Cleghorn, Ma lying at rest in her bed, she'd gone to bed with a steek in her side and as lying fair wearied till Ake looked in.

2. (knitting) The bridge of extra stitches used in the steeking technique.

• skeet, keets, 'keets, skete, teeks, Teske, ekest

• IPA^(key): /steːk/

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• Rhymes: -eːk

From Middle Dutch stēke, from Old Dutch *stiki, from Proto-West Germanic *stiki.

steek m (plural steken, diminutive steekje n)

1. a prick (insect bite), a stab, a thrust
2. a hitch (knot)
3. a stitch
4. a bicorne or tricorn; a cornered hat

   Synonym: punthoed

• Afrikaans: steek
• → Papiamentu: stek, steek

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

steek

1. inflection of steken:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
   3. imperative

• sekte, steke

• steeg (Föhr-Amrum)
• steege (Mooring)

From Old Frisian steka, from Proto-West Germanic *stekan.

• (Sylt) IPA^(key): [steːk]

steek (Sylt)

1. to stick, put inside
2. to sting, stab