Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A small weir or dam put in a river to direct the stream to gaps where fish-traps are placed.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A small weir or dam in a river to direct the stream to gaps where fish traps are placed.
Etymologies
- Perhaps from Anglo-Saxon burg, burh, hill + -ock. (Wiktionary)
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘burrock’.
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End in -ock
Inspired by fbharjo (see spitchcock).
spitchcock, hillock, willock, peacock, pajock, penock, yapock, sycock, bittock, bawcock, burrock, cammock and 168 more...
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Dam
List of words pertaining to dams and other means of impounding and directing water; their names, parts, pieces, passageways.
gage-weir, rafter-dam, bear-trap dam, tripsill, splash-dam, flood-dam, flooding-dam, sluiceway, spillway, millrace, headrace, sluice-valve and 38 more...
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Resource
katabatic, clerestory, haslet, alpenglow, purl, scumble, jessant, spavined, wayworn, creach, dottle, solferino and 165 more...
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lotic words of flow
fast flowing, rapid, confluent words
boustrophedon, boustrophedric, thixotrophic, ludic, hesychastic, blend, quaquaversal, phacoemulsification, mordant, glissando, vatic, tournure and 233 more...
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fbharjo a small weir Jan 21, 2009