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Definition of Brock
1. n. A badger.
2. n. A brocket.
Definition of Brock
1. Proper noun. (surname A=An English and Scottish from=Middle English dot=), a variant of Brook, or originally a nickname for someone thought to resemble a badger ( Middle English ''broc(k)''). ¹
2. Proper noun. (surnames male given name) transferred from the surname. ¹
3. Noun. (U.K.) a male badger. ¹
4. Verb. to taunt ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Brock
1. a badger [n -S]
Medical Definition of Brock
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Brock
Literary usage of Brock
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Dictionary of National Biography by Sidney Lee (1908)
"Isaac brock purchased a lieutenancy in the 8th (King's) in 1790, and shortly I
after, having raised men for an independent j company, was gazetted captain ..."
2. The New England Historical and Genealogical Register (1878)
"Sketch of the government of Botetourt, by RA brock. Aug. ... 10, " A Sketch of
Charles Campbell, a historian of Virginia, by RA brock. ..."
3. Sea Power in Its Relations to the War of 1812 by Alfred Thayer MAHAN (1905)
"l When brock thus wrote, July 20, he was at Fort George, on the shore of ...
2 brock received this news at Toronto, July 29; but not till August 3 did it ..."
4. Revolutionary Services and Civil Life of General William Hull by Maria Campbell, James Freeman Clarke (1848)
"true that General brock did not hear that the armistice had been actually ...
General brock did not leave York till the 6th of August,* and on the 2d of ..."
5. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1892)
"Captain, afterwards Admiral, Saumarez brock was sent on a political mission ...
The notes Admiral Saumarez brock wrote to illustrate them are still full of ..."
6. The History of Canada: From Its First Discovery to the Present Time by John Mercier McMullen (1855)
"In his rear Mackinaw had fallen, while Colonel Proctor, who had been sent on by
brock with a small reinforcement, pushed a force across the river, ..."
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