(originally, Scotland, architecture, chiefly, historical) A nook or corner beside an open fireplace; a chimney corner.
(originally, Scotland, architecture, chiefly, historical) A nook or corner beside an open fireplace; a chimney corner.
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(Scotland, Northumbria) A corner; a nook. A fairy fiddler frae the neuk, [nook] - "Robert Burns", by William Allan Neilson (1917).
(obsolete, or, Scotland) Beside an open fireplace.
An interior corner; a nook; hence, an angular recess or hollow bend in a mountain, river, cliff, etc.
(Scotland) The vestibule of a house.
(Scotland, obsolete) The fireplace of a kiln.