noun
- a velvetlike pattern produced on wallpaper or cloth decorated with flock.
- flock2(def 3).
noun
- a number of animals of one kind, especially sheep, goats, or birds, that keep or feed together or are herded together.
- a large number of people; crowd.
- a large group of things: a flock of letters to answer.
- (in New Testament and ecclesiastical use)
- the Christian church in relation to Christ.
- a single congregation in relation to its pastor.
- Archaic. a band or company of persons.
verb (used without object)
- to gather or go in a flock or crowd: They flocked around the football hero.
noun
- a lock or tuft of wool, hair, cotton, etc.
- (sometimes used with a plural verb) wool refuse, shearings of cloth, old cloth torn to pieces, or the like, for upholstering furniture, stuffing mattresses, etc.
- Also called flocking. (sometimes used with a plural verb) finely powdered wool, cloth, etc., used for producing a velvetlike pattern on wallpaper or cloth or for coating metal.
- floc(def 1).
verb (used with object)
- to stuff with flock, as a mattress.
- to decorate or coat with flock, as wallpaper, cloth, or metal.
noun (sometimes functioning as plural)
- a group of animals of one kind, esp sheep or birds
- a large number of people; crowd
- a body of Christians regarded as the pastoral charge of a priest, a bishop, the pope, etc
- rare a band of people; group
verb (intr)
- to gather together or move in a flock
- to go in large numberspeople flocked to the church
noun
- a tuft, as of wool, hair, cotton, etc
-
- waste from fabrics such as cotton, wool, or other cloth used for stuffing mattresses, upholstered chairs, etc
- (as modifier)flock mattress
- very small tufts of wool applied to fabrics, wallpaper, etc, to give a raised pattern
- another word for floccule
verb
- (tr) to fill, cover, or ornament with flock
“tuft of wool,” mid-13c., probably from Old French floc, from Latin floccus “flock of wool, lock of hair.”
“gather, congregate,” c.1300, from flock (n.). Related: Flocked; flocking.
Old English flocc “a group of persons, company, troop,” related to Old Norse flokkr “crowd, troop, band,” Middle Low German vlocke “crowd, flock (of sheep);” not found in other Germanic languages; perhaps related to folc “people,” but the metathesis would have been unusual for Old English.
Extended c.1200 to “a number of animals of one kind moving or feeding together;” of domestic animals c.1300. Transferred to bodies of Christians, in relation to Christ or their local pastor, from mid-14c.