drock

Compare droke, drook.

drock (plural drocks)

1. (UK, dialect) A drainage ditch, sometimes covered; a small watercourse, especially one used for drainage or sewerage.
   • For quotations using this term, see Citations:drock.

drock (plural drocks)

1. (possibly obsolete) 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.
   • 1762, Jethro Tull, chapter XIX, in Horse-Hoeing Husbandry ... the fourth edition, page 299:

     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 the Drock, it bigger in the Middle [...]

   • 1801, The Gentleman's Magazine, volume 90, page 986:

     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 fastened to the drock and spindle, meeting each other in the angular point P.

   • 1802, Anthony Florian Madinger Willich, The Domestic Encyclopaedia; Or, A Dictionary of Facts, page 408:

     [...] drock, a piece of wood, that forms the lower extremity of the plough; and which is about six inches in width, three in depth, and rather more than two feet in length. - To the top of the drock is fastened an erect piece of timber [...]

• “drock”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Inherited from Middle High German trucken, trocken, from Old High German truckan, trokkan (“dried out, parched, thirsty, dry”), from Proto-West Germanic *drukn, from Proto-Germanic *druknaz, *druhnaz (“dry”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰerǵʰ- (“to strengthen; become hard or solid”), from *dʰer- (“to hold, hold fast, support”).

• IPA^(key): /trok/

drock

1. dry

   Das drockne Brod

   The dry bread

   Im Winter fliehe die drockne Bletter in de Luft romm.

   In winter, the dry leaves fly around in the air.

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• Online Hunsrik Dictionary

drock

1. busy, occupied with work