Nock
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nock¹
- /nɒk/ UK
- /nɑk/ US
Sounds like knock · Rhymes with -ɒk
Where it comes from
From Middle English nokke, attested since the 14th century, probably from a Scandinavian/North Germanic language (compare Swedish nock (“notch”), but compare Dutch nok, from Middle Dutch nocke (“tip, point”). Both could be related to nook (“corner, recess”).
noun nocks
- Either of the two grooves in a bow that hold the bowstring. Meanwhile there had been bustle and preparation in all parts of the great vessel. The archers stood in groups about the decks, new-stringing their bows, and testing that they were firm at the nocks.
- The notch at the rear of an arrow that fits on the bowstring. He took his arrow by the nock.
- The upper fore corner of a boom sail or trysail.
verb nocks · nocking · nocked
- To fit (an arrow) against the bowstring of a bow or crossbow. Then taking up his own good stout bow and nocking an arrow with care, he shot with his very greatest skill.
- To cut a nock in (usually in an arrow's base or the tips of a bow). It is a Scotch bow, I see, for the upper nock is without and the lower within. By the black rood! it is a good piece of yew, well nocked, well strung, well waxed, and very joyful to the feel.
interjection nock!
- Fit the arrow to your bowstring.
nock²
- /nɒk/ UK
- /nɑk/ US
Sounds like knock · Rhymes with -ɒk
noun
- Misspelling of knock.knock
verb
- Misspelling of knock.knock I put my hair up, and was just finished, when mother nocked. It was terrable^([sic]).
Nock³
Where it comes from
From the Middle English phrase atten okes (“at the oaks”).
proper noun Nocks
- A surname.
