3 entries under this word
n. [Hind. dāk.] The mail post. [Hindostan.]
Dawk bungalow, a house for rest at the end of a stage for those who travel dawk.—To travel dawk, to journey in palanquins carried by relays of men taken at fixed stations, or more recently by government post-wagons.
n. [See infra.] A hollow, rupture, or incision in timber. [Cant.] Moxon.
v. t. [Prov. Eng. dawk, to cut or pierce with a jerk, O. Eng. dalk, a dimple. Cf. Ir. tolch, tollachd, tolladh, a hole, crevice, toll, to bore, pierce, W. tyllu.] To cut or mark with an incision; to gash.