drock

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English

Noun

drock (plural drocks)

  1. (Can we verify(+) this sense?) (UK, dialect) A watercourse.
  2. (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, Horse-Hoeing Husbandry ... the fourth edition, chapter XIX, 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

  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.

Declension

Declension of drock (see also Appendix:Hunsrik adjectives)
masculine feminine neuter plural
Weak inflection nominative drock drock drock drockne
accusative drockne drock drock drockne
dative drockne drockne drockne drockne
Strong inflection nominative drockner drockne drocknes drockne
accusative drockne drockne drocknes drockne
dative drocknem drockner drocknem drockne

Antonyms

Further reading

Plautdietsch

Adjective

drock

  1. busy, occupied with work
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