slock

• IPA^(key): /slɒk/

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• Rhymes: -ɒk

Cognate with German Schluck (“a draught; a gulp”), Dutch slok (“a draught; a gulp”).

slock (plural slocks)

1. (Scotland, Northern England) A draught; a gulp.

   A slock of wine.

   • 1935, Howard Lindsay, She Loves Me Not: A Comedy in Two Acts: Dramatized from Edward Hope’s Novel, French’s standard library edition, New York, N.Y.; Los Angeles, Calif.: Samuel French, Inc., OCLC 2488929, Act I, scene II.B, page 15:

     Nothing like a slock of cake on a chilly evening, is there?

slock (third-person singular simple present slocks, present participle slocking, simple past and past participle slocked)

1. (Scotland, Northern England) To swallow, gulp.

• The Dictionary of the Scots Language

Blend of sock +‎ lock

slock (plural slocks)

1. An improvised weapon consisting of a padlock placed in a sock, common in prison environments.

Coined or popularized by Tim Wells, who is widely known among hunters for this style of hunting.

slock (plural slocks)

1. (intransitive, transitive) To hunt (wild game) with preindustrial tools such as spears, blowguns, slingshots, arrows, crossbows, or others.

• KLOCs, KSLOC, Klocs, Locks, locks