Fake
(1 syl.). Fake away. Cut away, make off (Latin, fac,
do, make). It also means to do—i.e. to cheat or swindle.
Fake.
A single fold of a coiled cable. (Scotch, faik, a fold;
Swedish, vika, to involve; Saxon, fægan, to unite.)
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