bleck
bleck · blecks
Any black fluid substance, as in blacking for leather, or black greaseAny black fluid substance, as in blacking for leather, or black grease.
/blɛk/
Meaning
5 sensesAny black fluid substance, as in blacking for leather, or black grease.
Ink.
Soot, smut.
(dialectal)Coalfish (Pollachius virens).
(obsolete)A black man.
Origin
From Middle English blek (“ink”), from Old Norse blek (“black tint, ink”), from Old EnglisFrom Middle English blek (“ink”), from Old Norse blek (“black tint, ink”), from Old English blæc (“black tint or dye, ink”), from Proto-West Germanic *blak, from Proto-Germanic *blaką (“that which is black; blackness”).
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