"bloak" meaning in English

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "bloaks",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "bloak (plural bloaks)",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "bloke"
        }
      ],
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          "source": "w"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1847, George W[illiam] M[acArthur] Reynolds, “Old Death”, in The Mysteries of London, volume III (volume I, Second Series), London: G. Vickers, […], →OCLC, page 66, column 1",
          "text": "He accordingly opened it [a letter], and read as follows:– / \"Tim put on the tats yesterday and went out a durry-nakin on the shadows, gadding a hoof. He buzzed a bloak and a shakester of a yack and a skin. [...\"] [W]e will lay before our readers a translation of the slang document:– / \"Tim dressed himself in rags yesterday, and went out disguised as a beggar half-naked and without shoes or stockings. He robbed a gentleman and a lady of a watch and a purse. [...\"]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1874, James Greeenwood, The Wilds of London, page 129",
          "text": "It might do for some bloaks as come there and was too miserable to look arter their a'pence, but he'd see 'em all—first before they fiddled him out of a farden.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1892, John Pennington Marsden, “A Professional Secret”, in Job Lot: Sketches and Stories, Philadelphia, Pa.: Hallowell & Co., […], →OCLC, page 177",
          "text": "Now I tell yer straight, I don't call it square for two big bloaks like us to tackle [i.e., steal from] one poor woman, and she a widder, and p'raps as 'ard up as us; it isn't English.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Russell Hoban, Riddley Walker, page 57",
          "text": "Mr Clevver comes up then. Hes stanning there waching the salting bloak' and hes hummering to his self a littl.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Archaic spelling of bloke."
      ],
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          "bloke",
          "bloke#English"
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  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "rhymes": "-əʊk"
    }
  ],
  "word": "bloak"
}

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "bloaks",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "bloak (plural bloaks)",
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
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        {
          "word": "bloke"
        }
      ],
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        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Rhymes:English/əʊk",
        "Rhymes:English/əʊk/1 syllable"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1847, George W[illiam] M[acArthur] Reynolds, “Old Death”, in The Mysteries of London, volume III (volume I, Second Series), London: G. Vickers, […], →OCLC, page 66, column 1",
          "text": "He accordingly opened it [a letter], and read as follows:– / \"Tim put on the tats yesterday and went out a durry-nakin on the shadows, gadding a hoof. He buzzed a bloak and a shakester of a yack and a skin. [...\"] [W]e will lay before our readers a translation of the slang document:– / \"Tim dressed himself in rags yesterday, and went out disguised as a beggar half-naked and without shoes or stockings. He robbed a gentleman and a lady of a watch and a purse. [...\"]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1874, James Greeenwood, The Wilds of London, page 129",
          "text": "It might do for some bloaks as come there and was too miserable to look arter their a'pence, but he'd see 'em all—first before they fiddled him out of a farden.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1892, John Pennington Marsden, “A Professional Secret”, in Job Lot: Sketches and Stories, Philadelphia, Pa.: Hallowell & Co., […], →OCLC, page 177",
          "text": "Now I tell yer straight, I don't call it square for two big bloaks like us to tackle [i.e., steal from] one poor woman, and she a widder, and p'raps as 'ard up as us; it isn't English.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Russell Hoban, Riddley Walker, page 57",
          "text": "Mr Clevver comes up then. Hes stanning there waching the salting bloak' and hes hummering to his self a littl.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Archaic spelling of bloke."
      ],
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        [
          "bloke",
          "bloke#English"
        ]
      ],
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        "archaic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "rhymes": "-əʊk"
    }
  ],
  "word": "bloak"
}