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Definition of Pollock

1. Noun. United States artist famous for painting with a drip technique; a leader of abstract expressionism in America (1912-1956).

2. Noun. Lean white flesh of North Atlantic fish; similar to codfish.

3. Noun. Important food and game fish of northern seas (especially the northern Atlantic); related to cod.

Definition of Pollock

1. n. A marine gadoid fish (Pollachius carbonarius), native both of the European and American coasts. It is allied to the cod, and like it is salted and dried. In England it is called coalfish, lob, podley, podling, pollack, etc.

Definition of Pollock

1. Proper noun. (non-gloss definition A surname.) ¹

2. Noun. A painting by Jackson Pollock. ¹

3. Noun. (alternative spelling of Polack) ¹

4. Noun. Either of two lean, white marine food fishes, of the genus ''Pollachius'', related to cod. ¹

5. Verb. To fish for pollock. ¹

6. Verb. To splatter, as with paint. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Pollock

1. pollack [n -S] - See also: pollack

Medical Definition of Pollock

1. A marine gadoid fish (Pollachius carbonarius), native both of the European and American coasts. It is allied to the cod, and like it is salted and dried. In England it is called coalfish, lob, podley, podling, pollack, etc. See: Pollack. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pollock

pollinizes pollinizing pollinose pollinoses pollinosis pollis pollises pollist pollists polliwig

polliwigs polliwog polliwogs pollman pollmen pollock (current term) pollocked pollocking pollocks pollodic

polls pollster pollsters polltaker polltakers pollucite pollutable pollutant pollutants

Literary usage of Pollock

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

1. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1920)
"Action by Thomas Harvey pollock and others against House & Hermann. ... The plaintiffs are Thomas Harvey pollock and Julius pollock, Jr., trustees under and ..."

2. Who's who by Henry Robert Addison, Charles Henry Oakes, William John Lawson, Douglas Brooke Wheelton Sladen (1898)
"pollock, Rev. Bertram, Master of Wellington College; b. 6 Dec. 1863 ; ys of GF pollock, Senior Master of the Supreme Court and the Queen's Remembrancer, ..."

3. A Supplement to Allibone's Critical Dictionary of English Literature and by John Foster Kirk, Kirk, John Foster, 1824-1904, Samuel Austin Allibone (1891)
"1845; son of Sir William Frederick pollock, iii/Va; was educated at Eton, ... 1827 ; son of the Into Chief Baron Sir F. pollock; served in the Punjab ..."

4. The Magazine of American History with Notes and Queries by John Austin Stevens, Benjamin Franklin DeCosta, Martha Joanna Lamb, Henry Phelps Johnston, Nathan Gilbert Pond, William Abbatt (1889)
"And yet from the beginning to the end Oliver pollock was the one ... Like Fran£ois Vigo, pollock was of foreign birth, and for twenty-five years a resident ..."

5. A History of England from the Conclusion of the Great War in 1815 by Spencer Walpole (1890)
"The curious on the subject are referred to Kaye's War in Afghanistan, vol. ii. p. 466, and Low's Life of pollock, p. 303. 3 Kaye's Afghan War, vol. ii. p. ..."

6. A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and ...by Thomas Bayly Howell by Thomas Bayly Howell (1821)
"Mr. pollock.—To the lllh of July, 1794, when his lordship removed to the war ... Mr. pollock.—The amount of fees received by his lordship to the 18th of ..."

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