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Definition of Sillocks
1. sillock [n] - See also: sillock
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sillocks
Literary usage of Sillocks
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Two Months in the Highlands, Orcadia, and Skye by Charles Richard Weld (1860)
"sillocks.—Meet a Frenchman.—His Love for " le Sport."—M. Neckar.—Proceed to
Uig.—Trodda-nish. —Angus Fiona.— How to Strangle your Enemy.— Rain. ..."
2. The Edinburgh magazine, and literary miscellany, a new series of The Scots (1821)
"We have to add, that, during the past winter, sillocks havi* literally filled
the harbours and bays of Orkney. By a letter, dated 27th February 18S1, ..."
3. The Harvest of the Sea: Including Sketches of Fisheries & Fisher Folk by James Glass Bertram (1873)
"There are no Acts of Parliament against using the net ; but after some time the
sillocks leave the isles and draw to the shore, where there are any ..."
4. Shetland. Descriptive and Historical: Being a Graduation Thesis on the by Robert Cowie (1874)
"sillocks, or the young of the Gadus Carbonarius as already mentioned, are generally
caught during the -winter in quantities sufficient to constitute them ..."
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