ake

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /eɪk/

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• Rhymes: -eɪk
• Homophone: ache

Verb

ake (third-person singular simple present akes, present participle aking, simple past aked or oke, past participle aked or aken)

1. Archaic spelling of ache.
   • ... for let our finger ake, / And it endues our other heathfull members — Othello (Quarto 1), Shakespeare, 1622
   • 1766, James Beattie, “[Miscellany Poems.] The Wolf and Shepherds, a Fable.”, in Poems on Several Subjects. […], new edition, London: […] W. Johnston, […], →OCLC, stanza 3, pages 113–114:

     And that thing made of ſound and ſhovv / VVhich mortals have miſnamed A Beau, / (But in the language of the ſky / Is call'd a tvvolegg'd butterfly) / VVill make your very heartſtrings ake / VVith loud and everlaſting clack, […]

   • 1909, Henry C. Shelley, Inns and Taverns of Old London‎, text edition, The Gutenberg Project, published 2004:

     instead he went with the rogues to supper in an arbour, though it made his heart "ake" to listen to their mad talk.

Noun

ake (plural akes)

1. Archaic spelling of ache.
   • 2015, LT Wolf, The World King (fiction), →ISBN:

     The ake of months of a growing firenlust became a rising queem til at last there was the burst of loosing that almost made his knees buckle.

Noun

ake (plural akes)

1. (Cornwall, obsolete) The groove made in a stone forming part of a killock.
   • 1913, Leonard George Carr Laughton, ‎Roger Charles Anderson, ‎William Gordon Perrin, The Mariner's Mirror (volume 3, page 300)

     Returning with the timber portions of his anchor, to the stone, he would assemble all together […] The ake would be the slightly hollowed part of the stone that fitted closely to the sides […]

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɑːˈkeɪ/

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• Rhymes: -eɪ

Adverb

ake (not comparable)

1. (New Zealand) forever
   • 1882, B. Francis, Isles of the Pacific: Or, Sketches from the South Seas, page 78:

     The answer given was : — " Friends, this is the reply of the Maori : we shall fight on ake, ake, ake, for ever, for ever, for ever."

   • 1907, Wilhelm Dittmer, Te Tohunga: The Ancient Legends and Traditions of the Maoris:

     That was the time when the great wish grew in the heart of Maui, the wish to conquer his powerful enemy Hine-nui-te-po, that Night might die and man may live for ever: ake, ake, ake!—yes, it was his great wish.

   • 1938, Edith J. Lyttleton, G. B. Lancaster, Promenade, page 383:

     "Ake, ake, ake," said Von Tempsky, weary over the camp-fire. "Has there been anything like it since the days of the old Greeks? What madness makes you kill such men when you may want them to fight for you some day?"

   • 1997, Queenie Rikihana, Paki Waitara: Myths & Legends of the Māori, →ISBN, page 33:

     One day Maui visited his parents to tell them of his latest plan — he wished to conquer his powerful enemy Hine-nui-te-po so that the Night might die and man would live forever: ake, ake, ake!