Definition of "dawk" in English

verb

1. (transitive, UK dialectal) To drive a sharp instrument into; incise with a jerk; puncture.

2. (transitive) To cut or mark with an incision; gash.

3. (transitive, UK dialectal) To dig up weeds.

noun

1. A hollow or crack in timber.

noun

1. (politics) A person who advocates neither an aggressive nor a conciliatory political attitude (especially in foreign policy).

noun

1. Alternative form of dak (“Indian post system”).

   • During the mutiny of 1857–58, when several young surgeons had arrived in India, whose services were urgently needed at the front, it is said that the Head of the Department to which they had reported themselves, directed them immediately to 'lay a dawk.' One of them turned back from the door, saying: 'Would you explain, Sir; for you might just as well tell me to lay an egg!'

noun

1. Archaic form of dhak (“the tree Butea monosperma”).