Word.ws English Dictionary

parrock

parrock noun: an enclosed area of land; a small field or a paddock.

Noun

parrock (plural parrocks)

  1. (England, Scotland, regional) An enclosed area of land; a small field or a paddock.
    • James Broadbent did not wonder what Isaac Hartley was doing in the sodden parrock that lay behind Elphaborough Hall in the fading light of day […].2017, Benjamin Myers, The Gallows Pole, Bloomsbury, published 2019, page 231

Verb

parrock (third-person singular simple present parrocks, present participle parrocking, simple past and past participle parrocked)

  1. (transitive) To enclose or shut in; park.

Forms of parrock

Noun
pluralparrocks
Verb
third-person singular presentparrocks
present participleparrocking
past participleparrocked
pastparrocked

Origin of parrock

From Middle English parrok, from Old English pearruc, pearroc (“clatrum, fence by which a space is enclosed, enclosure, enclosed land”), perhaps from post-classic Latin parricus (compare park). Cognate with Dutch perk (“flowerbed”), German Pferch (“pen, fold”).

From Middle English parroken, parrokken, from parrok. See above.

Questions about parrock

What does parrock mean?
Parrock means an enclosed area of land; a small field or a paddock.
What part of speech is parrock?
Parrock can be a noun or a verb.
What is the plural of parrock?
The plural of parrock is parrocks.

Words near parrock in the dictionary

  1. Parrish
  2. parritch
  3. parritches
  4. Parritt
  5. parro
  6. parrock
  7. parrocked
  8. parrocking
  9. parrocks
  10. parrodiene
  11. parrodienes

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: parrock (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: “parrock.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/parrock. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.