"gloak" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1956, Frank Clune, Martin Cash: The Last of the Tasmanian Bushrangers (page 149)",
          "text": "You're a prime gloak, an out-and-outer, to get as far as you did before they grabbed you."
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          "ref": "1997, Thomas Pynchon, Mason & Dixon, New York: Henry Holt and Company, →OCLC, page 401",
          "text": "‘Brit, by the look of him,’ cries a short, freckl’d seaman in whom Stature and Pugnacity enjoy an inverse relation. ‘– long way from home ain’t you old Gloak?’",
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          "ref": "quoted in 2013, Nicola Phillips, The Profligate Son (page 133)",
          "text": "[…] both toby-gills [highwaymen], buz-gloaks [pickpockets], cracksmen [housebreakers], &c., but from their good address and respectable appearance nobody would suspect their real vocation."
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        "(UK, slang) A man, a guy."
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