nook

A small corner formed by two walls; an alcove.

There was a small broom for sweeping ash kept in the nook between the fireplace bricks and the wall.

A hidden or secluded spot; a secluded retreat.

The back of the used book shop was one of her favorite nooks; she could read for hours and no one would bother her or pester her to buy.

All right. Well, uh, glad to be here in this cozy nook.

A recess, cove or hollow.

Ar. Safely in harbour / Is the Kings ſhippe, in the deepe Nooke, where once / Thou calldſt me vp at midnight to fetch dewe / From the ſtill-vext Bermoothes, there ſhe's hid; [...]

An English unit of land area, originally ¹⁄₄ of a yardland but later 12+¹⁄₂ or 20 acres.

You must note, that two Fardells of Land make a Nooke of Land, and two Nookes make halfe a Yard of Land.

Nook, an old legal term for 12+¹⁄₂ acres of land; still in use at Alston.

A corner of a piece of land; an angled piece of land, especially one extending into other land.

The ancient bounds of the cow paſture of Penrith, [...] and then from the ſaid Old Dyke end, alongſt Plumpton Dyke Eaſt over Petterel unto Plumpton park nuke, otherwiſe called Plumpton nuke; [...]

The bounder beginneth at the east nuke of the Carter, and from thence extendeth eastward upon the height of the edge to Robscleugh Score, and from thence to Phillip's cross, so to the Spittopnuke, from thence to Greenlaw, so to the height of the Brown Hartlaw, and from thence along the high street to the nuke of the Blakelaw, and from thence to Hemmier's Well, where Ridsdale and Cookdale meet, all wᵉʰ is a bounder against Scotland.

To withdraw into a nook.

Mrs. Fluent was nooked with their hostess in the corner of another, a retiring woman, remarkably pretty withal, as your ministers' wives generally are, and no wonder, since the ministers, if at all popular, usually have their pick among the young lambs — we mean the young ladies — of their flocks.

'Tis the marrow of health In the forest to lie, Where, nooking in stealth, They enjoy her supply

To situate in a nook.

The city of Gotham is an island, as we have said; and once it was a beautiful island, affording to the gaze of him who sailed along its shores, an agreeable mixture of rock and grove, topping hill and marshiy low ground, spakling here and there with the villas or country-houses of the wealthy Gothamites, mostly built of wood painted white, and adorned with long verandahs quite encircling them; or showing at some turn a humbler, but substantial abode, nooked under a mighty horse-chestnut, the headquarters of a milk-farm, with cattle (whose tinkling bells you could hear in the still evening) grazing on its wild up-hilly pasture-land.

Stairs descended to larders, pantries were cleverly nooked into alcoves, and beyond the open windows sprawled lush gardens.

A surname.

A locality in Kentish council area, northern Tasmania, Australia.