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noun
Nock  n.  
1.
A notch. "He took his arrow by the nock."
2.
(Naut.) The upper fore corner of a boom sail or of a trysail.





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"Nock" Quotes from Famous Books



... of two kinds. One is the man-d[)e] or za^{n}zi-mand[)e] (bow-wood bow), having an unbroken curve past the grip to within an inch or two of each nock.[2] The other kind is the [t]a[k]a^{n}-mand[)e], so called because it has deer sinew glued on its back.[3] Bows were made of hickory, ash, ironwood, or za^{n}zi, the last being greatly preferred. It is a wood resembling ...
— Omaha Dwellings, Furniture and Implements • James Owen Dorsey,
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... there came a blush, as innocent as virgin ever knew, to my mother's smooth cheek; and she looked so fair, so good, and still so young all the while that you would have said that either Dusius, the Teuton fiend, or Nock, the Scandinavian sea-imp, from whom the learned assure us we derive our modern Daimones, "The Deuce," and Old Nick, had possessed my father, if he had not learned to love ...
— The Caxtons, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton
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... kech flise on the wall. well in the middle of the nite i heard awful swareing down stairs and heard father hollering for mother to come down. i set up and lissened. i gnew it wasent berglers for father cood nock the stuffing out of enny bergler and if it was i gnew he woodent let mother come down where they was dainger. so i lissened and oh time how father was swareing. i never heard enny such swareing in my life, and father ...
— Brite and Fair • Henry A. Shute
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... whipped in the middle with colored silk, to mark the place for your arrow nock to be put, in shooting, will make a ...
— Illustrated Science for Boys and Girls • Anonymous
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Words linked to "Nock" :   score, scarify, line, scar, scotch, scribe


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