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Dawk vs Dalk - What's the difference?

dawk | dalk |

As nouns the difference between dawk and dalk

is that dawk is a hollow or crack in timber while dalk is a pin; brooch; clasp or dalk can be a hollow or depression.

As a verb dawk

is to drive a sharp instrument into; incise with a jerk; puncture.

dawk

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • To drive a sharp instrument into; incise with a jerk; puncture.
  • To cut or mark with an incision; gash.
    • (Moxon)
  • To dig up weeds.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A hollow or crack in timber.
    • (Moxon)
    (Webster 1913) ----

    dalk

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) dalke, dalk, from (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A pin; brooch; clasp

    • Etymology 2

    Perhaps a diminutive of (dale), (dell).

    Alternative forms

    *

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A hollow or depression.
  • *1969 , Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor , Penguin 2011, p. 120:
  • *:On a sunny September morning, with the trees still green, but the asters and fleabanes already taking over in ditch and dalk , Van set out for Ladoga, N.A.