"lowke" meaning in Middle English

{
  "etymology_number": 1,
  "etymology_text": "Likely from louken (“to lock”).",
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  "lang": "Middle English",
  "lang_code": "enm",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "glosses": [
        "A lock, bolt; a locker, locked chest."
      ],
      "id": "en-lowke-enm-noun-ZR-14Cfq",
      "links": [
        [
          "lock",
          "lock"
        ],
        [
          "bolt",
          "bolt"
        ],
        [
          "locker",
          "locker"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(rare) A lock, bolt; a locker, locked chest."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "rare"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "lowke"
}

{
  "etymology_number": 2,
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    {
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      },
      "expansion": "Unknown",
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    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Unknown. Possibly related to louk (“woodlouse”)",
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  ],
  "lang": "Middle English",
  "lang_code": "enm",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Middle English hapax legomena",
          "parents": [
            "Hapax legomena",
            "Terms by usage"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "(please add an English translation of this quotation)",
          "text": "c. 1410, Geoffrey Chaucer, \"The Cook's Tale\" in The Canterbury Tales, copied in the Hangwrt MS. Republished in 1870, Frederick James Furnivall (ed.), Chaucer's Canterbury Tales in Parallel Columns, Part II, London: The Chaucer Society. l. 4415-4416.\nAnd for ther nys no theef / with-oute a lowke\nThat helpeth hym / to wasten and to sowke\nOf that he brybe kan / or borwe may",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Uncertain. Suggestions include: a thief's accomplice, \"a good for nothing fellow,\" \"a receiver of stolen goods.\""
      ],
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(hapax) Uncertain. Suggestions include: a thief's accomplice, \"a good for nothing fellow,\" \"a receiver of stolen goods.\""
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "lowke"
}

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    "Middle English entries with incorrect language header",
    "Middle English lemmas",
    "Middle English nouns",
    "Middle English terms with unknown etymologies"
  ],
  "etymology_number": 1,
  "etymology_text": "Likely from louken (“to lock”).",
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  ],
  "lang": "Middle English",
  "lang_code": "enm",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Middle English terms with rare senses"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A lock, bolt; a locker, locked chest."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "lock",
          "lock"
        ],
        [
          "bolt",
          "bolt"
        ],
        [
          "locker",
          "locker"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(rare) A lock, bolt; a locker, locked chest."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "rare"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "lowke"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "Middle English entries with incorrect language header",
    "Middle English lemmas",
    "Middle English nouns",
    "Middle English terms with unknown etymologies"
  ],
  "etymology_number": 2,
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      "expansion": "Unknown",
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    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Unknown. Possibly related to louk (“woodlouse”)",
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    {
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        "2": "noun"
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  ],
  "lang": "Middle English",
  "lang_code": "enm",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Middle English hapax legomena",
        "Middle English terms with quotations",
        "Requests for translations of Middle English quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
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          "english": "(please add an English translation of this quotation)",
          "text": "c. 1410, Geoffrey Chaucer, \"The Cook's Tale\" in The Canterbury Tales, copied in the Hangwrt MS. Republished in 1870, Frederick James Furnivall (ed.), Chaucer's Canterbury Tales in Parallel Columns, Part II, London: The Chaucer Society. l. 4415-4416.\nAnd for ther nys no theef / with-oute a lowke\nThat helpeth hym / to wasten and to sowke\nOf that he brybe kan / or borwe may",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Uncertain. Suggestions include: a thief's accomplice, \"a good for nothing fellow,\" \"a receiver of stolen goods.\""
      ],
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        "(hapax) Uncertain. Suggestions include: a thief's accomplice, \"a good for nothing fellow,\" \"a receiver of stolen goods.\""
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "lowke"
}

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  "called_from": "form_descriptions/1831",
  "msg": "unrecognized sense qualifier: hapax",
  "path": [
    "lowke"
  ],
  "section": "Middle English",
  "subsection": "noun",
  "title": "lowke",
  "trace": ""
}

{
  "called_from": "form_descriptions/1831",
  "msg": "unrecognized sense qualifier: hapax",
  "path": [
    "lowke"
  ],
  "section": "Middle English",
  "subsection": "noun",
  "title": "lowke",
  "trace": ""
}