speke

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

Speke
    n 1: English explorer who with Sir Richard Burton was the first
         European to explore Lake Tanganyika; he also discovered
         Lake Victoria and named it (1827-1864) [syn: {Speke}, {John
         Speke}, {John Hanning Speke}]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Speke \Speke\, v. i. & t.
   To speak. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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