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Definition of Daglocks
1. daglock [n] - See also: daglock
Lexicographical Neighbors of Daglocks
Literary usage of Daglocks
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publications by English Dialect Society (1882)
"daglocks [dag-loks], s. pi. the bits of wool that have been cut off round a
sheep's tau. See Daggle. Damping [damp'in], adj. showery, drizzling. ..."
2. A Glossary of the Lancashire Dialect by John Howard Nodal, George Milner (1875)
"daglocks, sb. pi. the wool cut off a sheep. See DAG, verb. DALE (Chipping; and
Burrow, near Kirkby-Lonsdale), sb. an un- separated portion of a field, ..."
3. Reprinted Glossaries by Walter William Skeat (1873)
"daglocks, sb. pi. locks of wool, cut off the buttocks and tails of sheep. '
Trimming the buttocks ' in the spring, provincially belting in this district, ..."
4. Glossary of Northamptonshire Words and Phrases by Anne Elizabeth Baker (1854)
"See DAGLOCKs. HAD TAILOR'S-YARD-BAND. A name given to the three stars in the belt
of Orion. ..."
5. A Glossary of Words Used in Swaledale, Yorkshire by John Harland (1876)
"daglocks [dag-loks], s. pi. the bits of wool that have been cut off round a
sheep's tail. Seo Daggle. Damping [damp-in], adj. showery, drizzling. ..."
6. A General Treatise on Cattle, the Ox, the Sheep, and the Swine by John Lawrence (1809)
"... quantities of daglocks, mort wool, or that from dead sheep, and such as had
been prematurely shorn, before the staple had attained its full length. ..."
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