Meaning of flock | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A surname.
2. A number of birds together in a group, such as those gathered together for the purpose of migration.
3. Coarse tufts of wool or cotton used in bedding.
   countable, uncountable
4. young female sheep
5. A large number of animals associated together in a group; commonly used of sheep, but (dated) also used for goats, farmed animals, and a wide variety of animals.
6. A lock of wool or hair.
   countable, uncountable
7. rough wool
8. Those served by a particular pastor or shepherd.
9. Very fine sifted woollen refuse, especially that from shearing the nap of cloths, formerly used as a coating for wallpaper to give it a velvety or clothlike appearance; also, the dust of vegetable fibre used for a similar purpose.
   countable, uncountable
10. flock (for mattress)
11. A large number of people.
12. stuffing (for cushions)
13. A religious congregation.
14. cotton waste

Equivalents

Examples

“He told his father, and said it would be just suitable work for him to run about fields and woods amongst the strawberry hills after a flock of hares, and now and then lie down and take a nap on some sunny hill.”

“But lapsed into so long a pause again / As half amazed, half frighted all his flock: [...]”

“I also have other sheep that are not from this pen. I must lead them. They, too, will respond to my voice. So they will be one flock with one shepherd.”

“The heathen […] came to Nicanor by flocks.”

“I prythee, Tom, beat Cut's saddle, put a few flocks in the point.”

“There was a neat hat-and-umbrella stand, and the stranger's weary feet fell soft on a good, serviceable dark-red drugget, which matched in colour the flock-paper on the walls.”

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