Definition of "okes" []

• Plural form of oke. (noun)

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• ""Those people who assume that future is cast in stone because 'the civilised okes are gone and the barbarians have taken over' are entirely misreading the situation; the dominant feature is fluidity,""
• "In the Isle of Delphos one, in Euboea another, at Nasamone a thirde, and emong the Dodonians, the famous okes, whose bowes by the blastes of the winde resounded to the eare, a maner of aduertisemente of deuellishe delusion."
• "In Ælfric's Genesis xliv. 11, it had perhaps still the wider sense, a reminiscence of which also remains in the ME. akernes of okes."