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Definition of Sillock
1. n. The pollock, or coalfish.
Definition of Sillock
1. Noun. (Scotland) The pollock or coalfish. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Sillock
1. a young coalfish [n -S]
Medical Definition of Sillock
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Sillock
Literary usage of Sillock
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Hand-book of the English Language: For the Use of Students of the by Robert Gordon Latham (1860)
"... haddock, sillock (fry of the coal fish), with many others. In English (a)
current—bullock, hillock, buttock; (b) archaic—paddock (toad); ..."
2. Monographic Medicine by Albion Walter Hewlett, Lewellys Franklin Barker, Milton Howard Fussell, Henry Leopold Elsner (1916)
"These views of Lunn are controverted by sillock, Paget, and Butlin who lean to the
... sillock. Illust. Med. News, London, 1889, ii, 182-186. Tr. Path. ..."
3. Stray Notes on Fishing and Natural History by Cornwall Simeon (1860)
"... &c., whilst in others, and more generally, the reverse is the case. As compared
with Salmon the three growths of Cuddy, sillock or ..."
4. Stray Notes on Fishing and Natural History by Cornwall Simeon (1860)
"... &c., whilst in others, and more generally, the reverse is the case. As compared
with Salmon the three growths of Cuddy, sillock or ..."
5. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1868)
"If grouse were scarce, there were always wildfowl of some kind ; and all that
swam in the sea furnished him with sport, from a seal to a sillock. ..."
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