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The Meaning of flock
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(n.) A company or collection of living creatures; -- especially applied to sheep and birds, rarely to persons or (except in the plural) to cattle and other large animals; as, a flock of ravenous fowl.
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(n.) A Christian church or congregation; considered in their relation to the pastor, or minister in charge.
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(v. i.) To gather in companies or crowds.
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(v. t.) To flock to; to crowd.
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(n.) A lock of wool or hair.
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(n.) Woolen or cotton refuse (sing. / pl.), old rags, etc., reduced to a degree of fineness by machinery, and used for stuffing unpholstered furniture.
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(sing. / pl.) Very fine, sifted, woolen refuse, especially that from shearing the nap of cloths, used as a coating for wall paper to give it a velvety or clothlike appearance; also, the dust of vegetable fiber used for a similar purpose.
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(v. t.) To coat with flock, as wall paper; to roughen the surface of (as glass) so as to give an appearance of being covered with fine flock.
Synonyms
batch
,
deal
,
good deal
,
great deal
,
hatful
,
heap
,
lot
,
mass
,
mess
,
mickle
,
mint
,
mountain
,
muckle
,
passel
,
peck
,
pile
,
plenty
,
pot
,
quite a little
,
raft
,
sight
,
slew
,
spate
,
stack
,
tidy sum
,
wad
,
troop
,
fold
,
cluster
,
constellate
,
clump
Homophones
floc
Rhymes
ad-hoc
,
adcock
,
aftershock
,
airlock
,
alcock
,
antiknock
,
antilock
,
antioch
,
baack
,
bach
,
balk
,
ballcock
,
bangkok
,
barach
,
baulk
,
bedrock
,
bloc
,
bloch
,
block
,
blok
,
boardwalk
,
boch
,
bock
,
bohlke
,
bok
,
broc
,
brock
,
calk
,
catwalk
,
caulk
,
chalk
,
chock
,
chok
,
clock
,
cloque
,
cock
,
comstock
,
cornstalk
,
croc
,
crock
,
crosstalk
,
crosswalk
,
deadlock
,
doc
,
dock
,
eisenach
,
elcock
,
electroshock
,
erlach
,
estok
,
falk
,
falke
,
faulk
,
feedstock
,
flintlock
,
floc
,
frock
,
fyock
,
gamecock
,
gawk
,
glock
,
gocke
,
gohlke
,
goshawk
,
gridlock
,
groch
,
haack
,
haacke
,
haak
,
hammerlock
,
hamrock
,
hancock
,
hassebrock
,
hauck
,
hauk
,
hauke
,
havelock
,
hawk
,
hawke
,
haycock
,
hemlock
,
hitchcock
,
hoc
,
hoch
,
hock
,
hollyhock
,
interlock
,
iraq
,
jacques
,
jaywalk
,
jock
,
kilmarnock
,
kloc
,
klock
,
klocke
,
knaack
,
knaak
,
knock
,
kock
,
kok
,
kroc
,
krock
,
krok
,
kwok
,
laack
,
laake
,
landlock
,
lauck
,
laughingstock
,
laycock
,
leacock
,
livestock
,
loch
,
lock
,
locke
,
maack
,
mach
,
madlock
,
manioc
,
maroc
,
matchlock
,
mauck
,
mauk
,
maycock
,
moch
,
mock
,
mohawk
,
mok
,
nighthawk
,
nock
,
norwalk
,
oarlock
,
och
,
overstock
,
padlock
,
pathak
,
peacock
,
ploch
,
plock
,
poch
,
pock
,
poppycock
,
reichenbach
,
restock
,
roadblock
,
roc
,
roch
,
rock
,
rocke
,
rocque
,
salk
,
sauk
,
schaack
,
schalk
,
schlock
,
schoch
,
shaak
,
shamrock
,
shedlock
,
sherlock
,
shock
,
shrock
,
shylock
,
sidewalk
,
skok
,
skroch
,
sleepwalk
,
smock
,
sock
,
sok
,
spock
,
spurlock
,
squawk
,
staack
,
stalk
,
stock
,
stocke
,
stokke
,
strock
,
talk
,
tock
,
tomahawk
,
toque
,
undock
,
unlock
,
vlok
,
vocke
,
waack
,
walk
,
walke
,
warloeck
,
wedlock
,
woodcock
,
woodstock
,
yeosock
,
zoch
,
zwack