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hordocks

hordocks is the plural of hordock.

Meaning of hordock

Noun

hordock (plural hordocks)

  1. (nonce-word) 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...

Questions about hordocks

What is hordocks the plural of?
Hordocks is the plural of hordock.

Words near hordocks in the dictionary

  1. hording
  2. Hordle
  3. Hordley
  4. Hordleys
  5. hordock
  6. hordocks
  7. Hords
  8. Horea
  9. Horeb
  10. HORECA
  11. horehound

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