Slocken
- quench (of fire or thirst); slake. A poem of 1797 by Robert Buchanan proposes: Let’s tak a slock’nin waught o’ beer. Thirst can be slockened with innocent liquids; the Weekly Scotsman (6 August 1964) reports There wasn’t enough water available to slocken the drouth [thirst] of a moose [mouse], but if your companion expresses a desire for a slockener, best head for the nearest pub and hope that he does not have the capacity referred to by Alexander Rodger in poem written before 1846: What I’ve drunk might have slockened the sun.