bocking

See also: Bocking

English

Etymology

Named after the town of Bocking, England, where it was first made.

Noun

bocking (countable and uncountable, plural bockings)

1. A coarse woollen fabric, used for floor cloths, to cover carpets, etc.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “bocking”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)