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cadlock

cadlock is the obsolete form of charlock.

Meaning of charlock

Noun

charlock (countable and uncountable, plural charlocks)

  1. Any of several yellow-flowered cruciferous weeds of grain fields, especially wild mustard (Rhamphospermum arvense, syn. Sinapis arvensis).
    Synonyms:
    kilk, charlock mustard, field mustard, wild mustard

Forms of cadlock

pluralcadlocks

Questions about cadlock

What is cadlock the obsolete form of?
Cadlock is the obsolete form of charlock.

Words near cadlock in the dictionary

  1. cadlag
  2. cadlags
  3. Cadle
  4. Cadles
  5. cadlina
  6. cadlock
  7. cadlocks
  8. CADM
  9. Cadman
  10. Cadmans
  11. cadmate

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cadlock (page history and authors); charlock (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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