Definition of Flockings

1. flocking [n] - See also: flocking

Lexicographical Neighbors of Flockings

flocculence
flocculent
flocculent spiral galaxy
floccules
flocculi
flocculonodular
flocculonodular lobe
flocculonodular lobes
flocculus
floccus
flock
flocked
flockier
flockiest
flocking
flockings (current term)
flockless
flockling
flocklings
flockly
flockmate
flockmates
flockmel
flocks
flocky
flocs
floe
floes
flog
flog a dead horse

Literary usage of Flockings

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A General Collection of the Best and Most Interesting Voyages and Travels in by John Pinkerton (1809)
"They make alfo filk- flockings and veils of cotton, but no cloths for the ... and filk flockings. The villages in the mountains are all employed in this ..."

2. The Painters' Encyclopaedia: Containing Definitions of All Important Words by Franklin B. Gardner (1887)
"flockings.—A fine lint or dust from a woven woolen fabric of various colors, used principally by sign- painters. The lettering having been gilded, ..."

3. Philosophical Transactions by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1760)
"... flockings can be put upon the leg, without being excited to a ... I proceeded to try the effect of two flockings upon one leg. ..."

4. The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq.: In Nine Volumes Complete, with His Last by Alexander Pope, William Warburton (1760)
"... flockings, which his maid darned fo often with filk, that they became at lafl ... that they were the fame individual pair of flockings, both before and ..."

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