brock

American  

[brok] / brɒk /

noun

• brocks
  plural

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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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• brocks
  plural

Etymology

Origin of brock

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

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

brock brocks

London Bridge is broken down; Green is the grass on Ludgate Hill; I know a farmer in Camden Town Killed a brock by Pentonville.

From Georgian Poetry 1920-22 by Sir Edward Howard Marsh

Jim: I’ll not be taken here, Like a brock in his earth: I’ll not be trapped and torn ...

From Krindlesyke by Wilfrid Wilson Gibson

There is an expression common in the north that would lead the ignorant to believe that a badger perspires, or sweats, viz. "sweating like a brock."

From The Badger A Monograph by Alfred E. Pease

Dandie promised with willingness, happy to oblige his guest, though quite unable to understand why any one should "care about a brock."

From Red Cap Tales Stolen from the Treasure Chest of the Wizard of the North by Sir Walter Scott

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 Robert Leighton

The wolves, foxes, harts, wild boars, fallow deer, hares, coneys, weasels, brocks, badgers, and other such beasts, were found dead in the fields with their mouths open.

From Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 2 by Peter Anthony Motteux

Then the moon came quiet and flooded full Light and beauty on clouds like wool, On a feasted fox at rest from hunting, In the beech wood grey where the brocks were grunting.

From Reynard the Fox by John Masefield