kolk

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noun

An underwater vortex similar to a whirlwind, capable of dislodging, picking up, and moving boulders.

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Meanings

kolk1

nounkolk (plural kolks)

plural kolks

  1. geographyAn underwater vortex similar to a whirlwind, capable of dislodging, picking up, and moving boulders.

kolk2

nounkolk (plural kolks)

plural kolks

  1. A relatively small water-filled depression, especially in a bog: a bog pond, a bog eye, a bog kolk.

    […] bog hollows and kolks.

    1998, R. S. Ambasht, Modern Trends in Ecology and Environment
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    […] bogs, but only around pools or kolks. The small-scale mosaic of hummocks and hollows so characteristic of the true raised bog is nowhere to be found on a wooded bog. The quaking bog community on the kolk edge, similar to that[…]

    1988 July 29, Heinz Ellenberg, Vegetation Ecology of Central Europe, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 341

Kolk3

proper nounKolk (plural Kolks)

plural Kolks

  1. A surname.

Origin

kolk · noun

  1. Dutchkolk
  2. Dutchkolk
  3. Englishkolk

Borrowed from Dutch kolk.

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kolk · noun

  1. GermanKolk
  2. Low GermanKolk
  3. Englishkolk

Borrowed from Low German Kolk, possibly via German Kolk. Cognate with Dutch kolk.

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Kolk · proper noun

From the Dutch and German surname, from Kolk (“bog, watering hole”) (see below).

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Chicago

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