? Anglo-Irish. Obs. rare–1. (Sense obscure.)
Perh. a misprint for noke, NOOK sb. (where see senses 3 d, e).
1571. E. Campion, Hist. Irel., 14/2, in Holinshed (1577). Styll erecting Castelles … so to mayster the Irishe, that with such maner of strengthes of Walles … had not as yet beene acquaynted, for tyll those dayes they knewe no defence but Woods, Bogs, or strokes.
