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What is a neuk?

What is a neuk? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (Scotland) A corner; a nook. A fairy fiddler frae the neuk, [nook] - "Robert Burns", by William Allan Neilson (1917)
  2. (Scotland) A bend (e.g. in a coast) …the fleet, after exploring the harbours, had doubled the East Neuk, passed safely through St Andrews Bay, and entered the Firth of Tay. --Chronicles of Strathearn (1896) - Rev. John Hunter.
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Even with a force six easterly bearing in from the North Sea yesterday, Crail still appeared like the cosy little corner of the East Neuk of Fife it undoubtedly is.
Their prized Fender Squier electric guitar was due to be auctioned at a sports dinner last night to raise cash for Eleanor's East Neuk Wheelchair Appeal.
The girl walked to the neuk window and put her hand on the old wheel.
Regaining some momentary composure, the girl turned her eyes once more aside and looked through the neuk window towards the south.
She put the spinning-wheel into the neuk window-stand and the woo-wheel against the wall.
Rotha walked to the neuk window and stood to think, her hand on the wheel and her eyes towards the south.

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