bock

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I have had it for a month, and it was coloring so beautifully He darted through the vast saloon, which was now full of smoke and of people drinking, uttering his cry Waiter, a 'bock'--and a new pipe REGRET Monsieur Savel, who was called in Mantes, "Father Savel," had just risen from bed.

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  1. To retch; vomit.
  2. To gush intermittingly, as liquid from a bottle. Burns.

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  • Dark beer styles such as the bock or the porter lend themselves to a chocolate taste. —  Epinions Recent Content for Home
  • GourmetBryggeriet also had a ropy bland bock, called GB Bock2. —  Irish Blogs
  • Obsello is being launched in California by Bock Wine and Spirits (www. bock-ws.com). —  Advertising Industry Newswire
  • Our provisions were all gone, and we were one day without any; but we killed an antelope called a spring-bock, which gave us provisions for three or four days: there was no want of game after we had descended into the plain. —  Masterman Ready The Wreck of the "Pacific"
  • I have had it for a month, and it was coloring so beautifully He darted through the vast saloon, which was now full of smoke and of people drinking, uttering his cry Waiter, a 'bock'--and a new pipe REGRET Monsieur Savel, who was called in Mantes, "Father Savel," had just risen from bed. —  The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume 4 (of 8)
 

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  1. Scots, = boke, q. v.; from Middle English bocken, boken, belch, vomit, also croak; variant of bolk, Middle English bolken, belch: see bolk.
 

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