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Hoik vs Holk - What's the difference?

hoik | holk |

As nouns the difference between hoik and holk

is that hoik is (cricket) a wild hook shot played without style while holk is a hollow cavity.

As verbs the difference between hoik and holk

is that hoik is to play such a shot while holk is to dig out; make hollow; hollow out.

hoik

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (cricket) a wild hook shot played without style
  • (NZ) spittle.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To play such a shot.
  • To lift something up wildly.
  • To throw something out.
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1960 , author= , title=(Jeeves in the Offing) , section=chapter VIII , passage=“What are your plans now?” “I propose to hoik you out of that chair and seat myself in it and take that book, the early chapters of which I found most gripping, and start catching up with my reading and try to forget.”}}
  • (NZ) to spit.

    • holk

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (l), (l)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A hollow cavity.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To dig out; make hollow; hollow out.
  • To dig; dig into; pierce; penetrate; investigate; poke.
  • To dig up; excavate.
  • * 1908 , University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen University Studies , Volume 35, page 96,
    • The Sessioune perceiving gryt perell through the burieing of people in the kirkyaird of thair perroche kirk and within the kirk itself by raising of grene graivis and holking under the kirk vall undermynding of the samyne ordanis fra this furth that na persone presume to mak graivis within the precinct thairof or yit to burie any persone within the boundis of the samine.