thurrock

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/ˈθʌɹək/

noun

The hold of a ship; also, the bilge.

OriginMiddle English thurrok ← Old English þurruc ← Proto-West Germanic *þurruk →
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Meanings

thurrock1

nounthurrock (plural thurrocks)

plural thurrocks · alternative obsolete thorrocke

  1. obsoletenauticalThe hold of a ship; also, the bilge.

Thurrock2

proper noun
  1. A unitary authority and borough of Essex, England.

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*terg-
  2. Proto-West Germanic*þurruk
  3. Old Englishþurruc“hold of a ship; bilge”
  4. Middle Englishthurrok
  5. Englishthurrock

From Middle English thurrok, from Old English þurruc (“hold of a ship; bilge”), from Proto-West Germanic *þurruk, from Proto-Indo-European *terg-, *terǵ- (“to rub, wipe, clean, make holes”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian durk (“sewer, bilge-water, lowest part in the hold of a ship”), Middle Dutch durck, dorck (“the hold of a ship”) (Dutch durk, dork (“a spout-hole”)), Middle Low German dork (“keel room, the lowest part of a ship's hold”), Gothic 𐌸𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌺𐍉 (þairkō, “hole, eye (of a needle)”), Latin tergō, tergeō (“wipe, scour, clean”, verb), Old English þurh, þuruh (“through”). More at through, thorough.

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