Lexicographical Neighbors of Pellocks
Literary usage of Pellocks
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Historical and Traditional Tales in Prose and Verse, Connected with the by Jack Nicholson (1843)
"A strange vessel, making into the bay. was very apt to run foul of these
pellocks!, and. if it blew hard, to be beat to1 pieces. The cruiser seemed to have ..."
2. The London Magazine by John Scott, John Taylor (1821)
"... while in the centre current the roll and the plunge of a thousand pellocks
told to the experienced fisherman that salmon were abundant. ..."
3. Tait's Edinburgh Magazine by William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone (1842)
"... The big pellocks soom, and the wild maws wing, Watchin' to entrap ye. The sun
has now set in a blea, blea cloud, ..."
4. Raiderland: All about Grey Galloway, Its Stories, Traditions, Characters by Samuel Rutherford Crockett (1904)
"... the last of the Kells Range, which pushed its wide shoulders on into the north,
heave behind heave, like a school of pellocks in the Firth. ..."
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