Definition of "nekke" [nekke]

• A Middle English form of neck. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "‘His throat was kit unto the nekke bone,’ in vain expectation of that seed that was to be laid upon his tongue, and give him renewed and clearer utterance."
• "And he hathe a crest of fedres upon his hed more gret than the poocock hathe; and his nekke is zalowe, aftre colour of an orielle,"
• "Maria, cowntyng the Pater Nosters, right so this kyng seythe every day devoutly 300 preyeres to his god, or that he ete: and he berethe also aboute his nekke a rubye oryent, noble and fyn, that is a fote of lengthe, and fyve fyngres large."