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Lesk vs Lask - What's the difference?

lesk | lask |

As nouns the difference between lesk and lask

is that lesk is the loin, flank while lask is diarrhoea (now only of animals).

lesk

English

Alternative forms

* lisk

Noun

(en noun)
  • (dialectal) The loin, flank.
  • (dialectal) The groin.

    • Anagrams

    * *

    lask

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Diarrhoea (now only of animals).
  • *, New York Review of Books, 2001, p.263:
  • *:A grave and learned minister, and an ordinary preacher at Alkmaar in Holland, was (one day as he walked in the fields for his recreation) suddenly taken with a lask or looseness, and thereupon compelled to retire to the next ditch […].
  • * 1653 , Nicholas Culpeper, The English Physician , Folio Society 2007, p. 150:
    • The emulsion or decoction of the seed stays lasks and continual fluxes, eases the colic, and allays the troublesome humours in the bowels […].