teek

plural teeks

1. countableobsoleteuncountableObsolete form of teak.

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   The Teek forests, from whence the marine yard at Bombay are furnished with that excellent species of ship timber, lie along the western side of the Gaut Mountains, and other contiguous ridges of hills, on the north and north-east of Basseen; the numerous rivulets that descend from thence affording water-carriage for the timber. I cannot close this account, without remarking the unpardonable negligence we are guilty of, in delaying to build Teek ships of war for the use of the Indians seas.

   1794–95, Proceedings Relative to Ships Tendered for the Service of the United East-India Company, from the Twenty-sixth of March, 1794, to the Sixth of January, 1795:, Extract from Major Rennel's Memoir, page 885

plural teeks

1. literatureA telekinetic person; a person who has telekinetic abilities.

   She stood there dumbfounded as the door swung open and banged against the inside wall, narrowly missing her.¶ I did that, she thought. I'm a... teek?

   2011, Nate Kenyon, StarCraft Ghost: Spectres, →ISBN, page 140

   Synonyms: telekinetic

present singular third person teeks · participle present teeking · participle past teeked · past teeked

1. transitiveliteratureTo use telekinesis on; to move (something) with the power of one's mind.

   With a brief psionic push, Nova teeked them aside and into the rock, firing her rifle at the soft areas just above the creature's rib cage.

   2011, Nate Kenyon, StarCraft Ghost: Spectres, →ISBN, page 44

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   Tears of pain came to his eyes—and he didn’t know which hurt more, the pain of the soup on his arm or the real shock he had received when he had forced himself to keep from teeking the falling soup halfway across the room.

   1957 April 28, Robert Silverberg, “Hidden Talent”, in Worlds of If, page 27