What is the meaning of さけ?

: sake, alcohol-based beverage

, : salmon

: old reading for (fukurō)

裂け, 割け: stem form of verb 裂ける, 割ける (sakeru, to be split apart; to tear)

避け: stem form of verb 避ける (sakeru, to avoid)

咲け: stem form of verb 咲ける (sakeru, to be able to bloom), itself the potential form of verb 咲く (saku, to bloom, to blossom; to split open as a fruit or flower)

Source: wiktionary.org