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Webster 1913 Edition


Pock

Pock

,
Noun.
[OE.
pokke
, AS.
pocc
,
poc
; akin to D.
pok
, G.
pocke
, and perh. to E.
poke
a pocket. Cf.
Pox
.]
(Med.)
A pustule raised on the surface of the body in variolous and vaccine diseases.
Of
pokkes
and of scab every sore.
Chaucer.

Webster 1828 Edition


Pock

POCK

,
Noun.
[Eng. big.] A pustule raised on the surface of the body in the variolous and vaccine diseases, named from the pustules, small pox, or as it ought to be written,small pocks.

Definition 2024


pock

pock

English

Noun

pock (plural pocks)

  1. A pus-filled swelling on the surface on the skin caused by an eruptive disease.
  2. Any pit, especially one formed as a scar

Translations

Verb

pock (third-person singular simple present pocks, present participle pocking, simple past and past participle pocked)

  1. To scar or mark with pits
    • 2007 February 23, Greg Myre, “Palestinian Universities Dragged Into Factional Clashes”, in New York Times:
      Just next door, at Al Azhar University, a rocket mangled the protective metal bars as it crashed through the windows of the president’s office this month, destroying his desk and pocking his walls with shrapnel.