Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A name applied by old English authors to some uncertain plant, probably a dock with whitish leaves, being a corruption of hoardock; perhaps the burdock, Arctium Lappa.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun See
hordock .
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- noun Obsolete form of
hordock .
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Examples
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IV. iv.4 (442,1) With bur-docks, hemlock] I do not remember any such plant as a _hardock_, but one of the most common weeds is a _burdock_, which I believe should be read here; and so Hanmer reads.
Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies Samuel Johnson 1746
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