Zeks is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.
You can make 12 anagrams from letters in zeks (eksz).
How does Hankins know that 'zek'el's livin' creeters means one thing more'n another?
Zechstein, zek′stīn, n. a deposit of calcareous rock which covers the Kupfer-schiefer.
No, my beloved and respected feller-citizen of native birth, it's as plain to me as the wheels of 'zek'el and the year 1843.