Crossword clues for pock
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pock \Pock\, n. [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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English pocc "pustule, blister, ulcer," from Proto-Germanic *puh(h)- "to swell up, blow up" (cognates: Middle Dutch pocke, Dutch pok, East Frisian pok, Low German poche, dialectal German Pfoche), from PIE root *beu- "to swell, to blow" (see bull (n.2)). Middle French pocque is from Germanic. The plural form, Middle English pokkes, is the source of pox, which since early 14c. has been used in the sense "disease characterized by pocks."
"to disfigure with pits or pocks," 1841. Related: Pocked; pocking.
Wiktionary
n. 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 vb. To scar or mark with pits
WordNet
Wikipedia
Pock, or Pöck, is a surname commonly associated with Austrian heritage. The surname is somewhat uncommon in the United States. It may refer to:
- Bernhard Pock (1963-1996), stunt actor
- Pontoffel Pock, fictional character in a Dr. Seuss film.
- Thomas Pöck (born 1981), Austrian-American ice hockey player
- Tobias Pock (1609-1683), Austrian Baroque painter
Usage examples of "pock".
The platform was scarred with deep, charcoal-blistered trenches made by the reflected beams of energy weapons and pocked with thousands of splintered gouges and impact holes from ricocheting slugs and rifle pellets, and blasphemies and cabbalistic signs had been carved into the polished ancient planks, but the huge black disc of the shrine itself, being only partly of this world, was inviolate.
She had seen enough sufferers of the pocking fever in her time with Hulde to be able to reproduce such an appearance.
The Kapok Kid, forehead swathed in bandages, the rest of his face pocked with blood, was bending over him.
She was heading for cover behind a pocked moonlet before they could sense her.
Frenchie had looked at him for a long time before turning back to Pocker and the others.
The map was pocked with such place-names as Foulness, Hoo, the Warp, and Slede Ooze.
On the outside she remained a hundred-meter spheroid, its smoothness broken by airlocks, hatches, boat bays, instrument housings, communications boom, grapples, and micrometeoroid pocks that had given the metal a matte finish.
Oltenians aboard, obviously had doubts about -the idea of halting on open ground pocked with glassy evidence of Molt gunfire.
This was a metal moonscape, pocked with craters and scarred with long furrows, the wounds of forgotten encounters with interstellar debris.
To her left, in the triangle of wild, uncultivated land between the meadow and the vast, overtowering whiteness of the Wall, the ground grew soft and marshy, veined with streams and pocked with tiny pools.
Maggie humbly but confidently making her request had it as kindly granted, and followed her to the barn to fill her pock with the light plumy covering of the husk of the oats, the mistress of Stonecross helping her the while and talking to her as she did so--for the soutar and his daughter were favourites with her and her husband, and they had not seen either of them for some while.
There was a big black man lying where he had fallen, his huge chest pocked with bullet-marks, every wound rosetted with its circle of flies.
And where the Scaum wallows through a broad dale, purple with horse-blossom, pocked white and gray with crumbling castles, the Derna has sheered a steep canyon, overhung by forested bluffs.
Bullets exploded behind him, splintering wood and pock marking the metal bulkheads.
Big scrofulous leaves, blue-black and stemless, pocked with ugly blister-shaped air bladders, sprout directly from the wood at sparse intervals.