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Definition of Pellock
1. a porpoise [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pellock
Literary usage of Pellock
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language: To which is Prefixed, a by John Jamieson (1880)
"Bellend. Derer. Alb., e. 9. Here he doe« not adhere to the Lit, of Boece.
He distinguishes the pellock from the ..."
2. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George H Warner (1902)
"That is but a gull — that only a seal — and that a mere pellock. James, James,
James! Shepherd [emerging] — Wha's that roarin'? ..."
3. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1827)
"That is but a gull—that only a seal—and that a mere pellock. James, James, James !
Wha's that roaring ? Stop awee till I get the sawt water out o' my een, ..."
4. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1902)
"You can hear the blowings of the pellock indeed; you would be stone deaf if you
did not catch his lusty plunges. But the fisherman's sense is very finely ..."
5. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1843)
"... to rin ower ye : The bie pellock.« snom. ao'the wild maws wing. Aa w ate hin'
to devour ye. ..."
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