drock
drock noun: a drainage ditch, sometimes covered; a small watercourse, especially one used for drainage or sewerage.
Noun (1)
drock (plural drocks)
- A drainage ditch, sometimes covered; a small watercourse, especially one used for drainage or sewerage.
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:drock.
Noun (2)
drock (plural drocks)
- A part of certain 18th and 19th century models of plough: a piece of wood which forms the bottom part of the plough, to which the spindle and the shelve-boards are fastened.
- Fig. 12. Is the Earth-board, [...] the Notch a b shews the Rising of the Wood, which takes hold of the Edge of the Sheat, to hold it firmer, to which it is fastened by the Holes c and d; and at the other End it is fastened to the Drock, at Hole e. [...] But this Pin, with which it is fastened to...1762, Jethro Tull, chapter XIX, in Horse-Hoeing Husbandry ... the fourth edition, page 299
- T, in fig. 1, represents part of what is called the drock; a piece of wood about 6 inches wide, 3 deep, and something more than 2 feet long, which is the bottom part of the plough. On the top of the drock is fastened an upright piece of wood called the spidle, […] the shelve-boards, which are...1801, The Gentleman's Magazine, volume 90, page 986
Forms of drock
| plural | drocks |
|---|
Origin of drock
Compare droke, drook.
Questions about drock
- What does drock mean?
- Drock means a drainage ditch, sometimes covered; a small watercourse, especially one used for drainage or sewerage.
- What part of speech is drock?
- Drock is a noun.
- What is the plural of drock?
- The plural of drock is drocks.
Words near drock in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: drock (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.
Last updated:
Cite this entry: “drock.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/drock. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.