† ˈluddock Obs.
[? f. lud1 + -ock. (But it is possible that the lud may be really a shortened form.)]
The loin, or the buttock.
| c 1420 Liber Cocorum (1862) 43 Take befe and sklice hit fayre and thynne, Of þo luddock with owte or ellis with in. c 1460 Towneley Myst. xxx. 314 His luddokkys thai lowke like walk-mylne cloggys. c 1490 Promp. Parv. 296/1 Leend, lym of a beeste (MS. K., Pynson or luddok), lumbus. |