drock

plural drocks

1. UKdialectalA drainage ditch, sometimes covered; a small watercourse, especially one used for drainage or sewerage.

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plural drocks

1. obsoletepossiblyA 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.

   … 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 …

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

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   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 [...]

   1762, Jethro Tull, chapter XIX, in Horse-Hoeing Husbandry ... the fourth edition, page 299

   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.

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