The Collaborative International Dictionary
Willock \Wil"lock\, n. (Zo["o]l.)
The common guillemot.
The puffin. [Prov. Eng.]
Wikipedia
Willock is a surname. People having this surname include
- Andy Willock (b. 1964), a former English football midfielder
- Brad Willock (b. 1962), a volleyball player
- Calum Willock (b. 1981), an international footballer
- Colin Willock (1919 - 2005), a magazine editor and a nature documentary producer
- Dave Willock (1909 – 1990), an American character actor
- John Willock also (Willocks) (1515 – 1585), Scottish reformer
- Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Henry Willock, British Envoy to Persia 1815-1826
Usage examples of "willock".
He had been pleasantly surprised to find that Willock was not in the beer cellar, and he had been seen to by his assistant.
Pruner had informed him with a wink that Willock was off sowing his wild oats.
Everyone had something that set them apart: Master Frallit was as bald as a berry, Willock the cellar steward had a club foot, even Findra the table maid had to bear the shame of being caught in the hayloft with the blacksmith.
It would take nothing short of a royal marriage to make that old tightpurse, Willock, break open a barrel.
Gillam telephoned Constable Robert Larsen at the Yalgoo police station who reported that: one of his s tockmen, Don Willocks, had repo rted to him that he had seen tracks in one of the Pindathurna paddocks which appeared to have been made by two femal e s .
A tracker named Ben from Noongal Station was brought into the search and he and Larsen travelled to Pindathuna to pick up Willocks on 5 September 1931.
Constable Larsen, Don Willocks and Ben, the Aboriginal tracker, left the tracks about 28 kilometres north of Dalgaranga Station.
No doubt seeing Willocks on the Pindathuna run frightened the girls, thinking that he would probably report the matter.