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English
Etymology
Perhaps from Old English burg, burh (“hill”) + -ock.
Noun
burrock (plural burrocks)
- A small weir or dam in a river to direct the stream to gaps where fish traps are placed.
References
- Edward H[enry] Knight (1877) “Burrock”, in Knight’s American Mechanical Dictionary. , volumes I (A–GAS), New York, N.Y.: Hurd and Houghton , →OCLC.
- “burrock”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.