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English
Noun
drock (plural drocks)
- (Can we verify(+) this sense?) (UK, dialect) A watercourse.
- (possibly obsolete) A part of certain 18th and 19th century models of plough: an 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
References
Hunsrik
Etymology
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”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
drock
- 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.
Declension
Antonyms
Further reading
Plautdietsch
Adjective
drock
- busy, occupied with work