drock

English

Noun

drock (plural drocks)

1. (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) (UK, dialect) A watercourse.
2. (possibly obsolete) A 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.
   • 1762, Jethro Tull, chapter XIX, in Horse-Hoeing Husbandry ... the fourth edition, page 299:

     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 [...]

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

     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.

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

     [...] 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 [...]

References

• “drock”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Hunsrik

Etymology

Inherited from Middle High German trucken, trocken, from Old High German truckan, trokkan (“dried out, parched, thirsty, dry”), from Proto-West Germanic *drukn, from Proto-Germanic *druknaz, *druhnaz (“dry”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰerǵʰ- (“to strengthen; become hard or solid”), from *dʰer- (“to hold, hold fast, support”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /trok/

Adjective

drock

1. dry

   Das drockne Brod

   The dry bread

   Im Winter fliehe die drockne Bletter in de Luft romm.

   In winter, the dry leaves fly around in the air.

Declension

Declension of drock (see also Appendix:Hunsrik adjectives)
		masculine	feminine	neuter	plural
Weak inflection	nominative	drock	drock	drock	drockne
	accusative	drockne	drock	drock	drockne
	dative	drockne	drockne	drockne	drockne
Strong inflection	nominative	drockner	drockne	drocknes	drockne
	accusative	drockne	drockne	drocknes	drockne
	dative	drocknem	drockner	drocknem	drockne

Antonyms

• nass

Further reading

• Online Hunsrik Dictionary

Plautdietsch

Adjective

drock

1. busy, occupied with work