verb
- past tense of holk; to dig out or hollow out; to excavate or scoop out material from something
Usage: chiefly British dialect or regional; archaic or obsolete in standard modern English
Examples
- The miners holked away at the rock face to extract the ore.
- He holked out the center of the log to make a canoe.
- The river holked a deep channel through the valley over centuries.
- Workers holked the foundation pit for the new building.