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drocks

drocks is the plural of drock.

Meaning of drock

Noun (1)

drock (plural drocks)

  1. (UK, dialectal) 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)

  1. (obsolete, possibly) 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

Questions about drocks

What is drocks the plural of?
Drocks is the plural of drock.

Words near drocks in the dictionary

  1. Drobny
  2. Drobnys
  3. drobuline
  4. Drochia
  5. drock
  6. drocks
  7. Drocode
  8. Droddy
  9. Droddys
  10. Droege
  11. Droeges

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