hordock

plural hordocks · alternative hardock · alternative hoardock · alternative hardoke · alternative harlock

1. nonce wordA plant, possibly burdock.

   Alack tis he, why he was met euen now, As mad as the vent sea singing aloud, Crownd with ranke femiter and furrow weedes, With hor-docks, hemlocke, netles, cookow flowers, Darnell and all the idle weedes that grow,

   c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iv]