Meaning

5 senses

  1. (Northern England, Scotland)To swallow, gulp.

  2. (Cornwall, transitive)To entice.

  3. (intransitive, transitive)To hunt (wild game) with preindustrial tools such as spears, blowguns, slingshots, arrows, crossbows, or others.

More meanings 2

  1. (West Country, obsolete, slang, transitive)To poach (a servant) from another household.

  2. (US, slang)To strike with a slock.

Origin

Cognate with German Schluck (“a draught; a gulp”), Dutch slok (“a draught; a gulp”). Blen

Cognate with German Schluck (“a draught; a gulp”), Dutch slok (“a draught; a gulp”).

Blend of sock + lock.

Coined or popularized by Tim Wells, who is widely known among hunters for this style of hunting.

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Forms

slocks, slocking, slocked, slocked

regular · Lesson

Base formslock · to slock
3rd person singularslocks
Present participleslocking
Past simpleslocked
Past participleslocked

Tenses

slock · slocked · will slock · have slocked

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Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyslock
he, she, itslocks

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave slocked
he, she, ithas slocked

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill slock

Past simpleLesson

all personsslocked

Word family

1 related words
Derivedslocking stone

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
slobC1slobberslogsloganB1slop

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