brock

American  

[brok] / brɒk /

noun

1. a European badger.

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brock British  

/ brɒk /

noun

1. a Brit name, used esp as a form of address in stories, for badger

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Etymology

Origin of brock

before 1000; Middle English brok, Old English broc badger < Celtic; compare Irish, Scots Gaelic broc, Welsh broch

Example Sentences

But his legitimate work is directed against the badger, in locating the brock under ground, worrying and driving him into his innermost earth, and there holding him until dug out.

From Dogs and All about Them by Leighton, Robert

We 'll e'en mark him, and ca' him the Captain's brock; and I'm sure I'm glad I can do ony thing to oblige you,--but, Lord save us, to care about a brock!'

From Guy Mannering — Complete by Scott, Walter, Sir

The fox doth fight with the brock for dens, and defileth the brock's den, and hath so the mastery over him with fraud and deceit, and not by strength….

From Mediaeval Lore from Bartholomew Anglicus by Steele, Robert

Well, now, I feel like a brock in a barrel—or not so big as him.

From The Devil's Garden by Maxwell, W. B.

Such a brock had not for years been seen in the country-side; so cool, so resolute, so knowing in his badger ways, so impregnable in his badger hole, and so good-humoured withal.

From The Three Clerks by Trollope, Anthony