drock
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 0.00 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A drainage ditch, sometimes covered; a small watercourse, especially one used for drainage or sewerage.
British usage
Example Sentences
- "For quotations using this term, see Citations:drock."
- "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 [...]"
- "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."
- "… 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 …"