dag-lock
[f. dag n.1 3 + lock.]
pl. Locks of wool clotted with dirt about the hinder parts of a sheep.
| 1623 Althorp MS. in Simpkinson Washingtons (1860) p. xlv, To 12 women..2 daies washing dag-loakes. 1724 Lond. Gaz. No. 6264/2 Frauds..are..committed..by winding in Fleeces, Locks, Tail-Locks, Sheer-Locks, Dagg-Locks. 1799 W. Pitt in Commun. Board Agric. II. 464 A very small proportion of breechings or daglocks. 1805 J. Luccock Nat. Wool 223 The bundles contained..a quantity of dag-locks, of wool from dead sheep. 1881 Leicestersh. Gloss., Dag-locks, the long locks of wool about a sheep which dag in the dirt when the animal lies down, etc. |