kolk
Pronunciation: /kɔlk/
“kolk” is a Dutch word. Its 7 meanings in English:
noun
- vortex, maelstrom
- a drain that is part a sewer system
- a small waterway connected to one or several windmills that control the water level in a polder, serving as a conduit to remove surplus water
- a dyke beside such a waterway
- a stagnant pool or lake resulting from the vortex of e.g. a breached dyke
- the body of water between sluice gates
- a dug watering hole
Etymology
From Middle Dutch colc, from Old Dutch *kolk, from Proto-West Germanic *kolk (“hollow, pit, gully”), from Proto-Germanic *kulukaz, an extension of *kelǭ (“throat”).
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