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(UK, dialect) A drainage ditch, sometimes covered; a small watercourse, especially one used for drainage or sewerage..
For quotations using this term, see Citations:drock.
… 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 …
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 [...]
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.
Use drock when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Drock means (UK, dialect) A drainage ditch, sometimes covered; a small watercourse, especially one used for drainage or sewerage..
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The opposite depends on the specific sense.
For quotations using this term, see Citations:drock.
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