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▪ I. roky, a.1 Chiefly dial.|ˈrəʊkɪ|
Also 8 Sc. rocky, 9 dial. roaky, rokey.
[f. roke n.1 + -y.]
Misty; foggy; drizzly. Cf. rawky a.2
c1440Promp. Parv. 436/1 Roky, or mysty, nebulosus. 1722Hamilton Wallace xii. iv. 229 (1786) 238 A rocky mist fell down at break of day. a1825Forby Voc. E. Anglia, Roky, foggy. 1828Carr Craven Gloss., Roaky, drizzly. 1872Tennyson Last Tourn. 502 [He] in a roky hollow, belling, heard The hounds of Mark. 1888Rider Haggard Col. Quaritch xviii, He would take out a ‘rokey’ (foggy) looking bit of a picture.
▪ II. roky, a.2 Founding.|ˈrəʊkɪ|
[f. roke n.2 + -y1.]
Possessing or characterized by rokes.
1932E. Gregory Metallurgy ii. 58 Some of these cracks may escape detection in the forge, and unsound roky billets are thus produced. 1940Simons & Gregory Steel Manuf. xix. 141 It is not uncommon for these cracks to be unnoticed in advance of forging or rolling, and they then elongate and ‘open-out’, producing ‘roky’ billets. |
