The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pocock \Po"cock\, n.
Peacock. [Obs.]
--Chaucer.
Wikipedia
Pocock is a surname, and may refer to:
- Andrew Pocock (born 1955), British High Commissioner to Nigeria
- Bill Pocock (born 1884–1959), English footballer
- Blair Pocock (born 1971), New Zealand cricketer
- Colin Pocock (born 1972), South African beach volleyball player
- Cyrena Sue Pocock (c.1986–1964), American operatic contralto
- David Pocock (disambiguation)
- Edward Innes Pocock (1855–1905), Scottish rugby international
- Fiona Pocock, English rugby union player
- Sir George Pocock (1706–1792), Royal Navy Admiral
- George Pocock (inventor) (1774–1843), English schoolteacher and inventor
- George Yeomans Pocock (1891–1976), American boat builder and philosopher of rowing
- H. R. S. Pocock (1904–1988), British businessman and author
- Isaac Pocock (1782–1835), English dramatist and painter
- John Pocock (died 1732), British Army general
- John Pocock (cricketer) (1921–2003), English cricketer
- J. G. A. Pocock (born 1924), British intellectual historian
- Lena Margaret Pocock (1872–1957), British actress
- Lilian Josephine Pocock (1883–1974), English stained glass artist
- Nancy Meek Pocock (1910–1998), Canadian activist
- Nicholas Pocock (1740–1821), British artist
- Nicholas Pocock (historian) (1814–1897), English academic and cleric
- Nick Pocock (born 1951), English cricketer
- Pat Pocock (born 1946), English cricketer
- Philip Francis Pocock (1906–1984), Roman Catholic Archbishop of Toronto
- Philip Pocock (born 1954), Canadian artist
- Reginald Innes Pocock (1863–1947), British zoologist, arachnologist and mammalogist
- Stuart Pocock, British medical statistician
- Tim Pocock (born 1985), Australian actor
- Thomas Pocock (clergyman) (1672–1745), English diarist
- Tom Pocock (1925–2007), British naval historian
- William Wilmer Pocock (1813–1899), British architect
Usage examples of "pocock".
June, 1877, he lost one of his companions, Frank Pocock, at the passage of the cataracts of Massassa, and on the 18th of July he was himself carried in his boat into the Mbelo Falls, and escaped by little short of a miracle.
That the higher motives mentioned by Smith governed such tried and steadfast souls as Bass, Brewer, Collier, Fletcher, Goffe, Hatherly, Ling, Mullens, Pocock, Thomas, and a few others, there can be no doubt.
Pocock was normally and consentingly though not quite wittingly out of the question.
The Arabic writers, who have treated the subject with the zeal of patriotism or devotion: the extracts of Pocock (Specimen Hist. Arabum, p.
The last evidence, in every sense, is that of the Turkish annals, which have been consulted or transcribed by Leunclavius, Pocock, and Cantemir.