hardock
hardock is the obsolete form of hordock.
Meaning of hordock
Noun
hordock (plural hordocks)
- A plant, possibly burdock.
- Alack tis he, why he was met euen now,
As mad as the vent sea singing aloud,
Crownd with ranke femiter and furrow weedes,
With hor-docks, hemlocke, netles, cookow flowers,
Darnell and all the idle weedes that grow,c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount...
- Alack tis he, why he was met euen now,
Forms of hardock
| plural | hardocks |
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Questions about hardock
- What is hardock the obsolete form of?
- Hardock is the obsolete form of hordock.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: hardock (page history and authors); hordock (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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