ˈcollock Now dial.
Forms: 5 collok, 5–6 colok, 6 collack, -eck(e, 6–9 collock; also 4 goloke.
[In form app. a dim. in -ock: the primitive appears to have been colle cask, tub.]
A tub, or similar vessel; now, dial. a large pail.
| c 1310 Sat. People Kildare xviii. in E.E.P. (1862) 155 Hokesters..wiþ candles and golokes and þe pottes blak. 1437 Test. Ebor. (1855) II. 61 Unam peciam coopertam, vocatam le collok. c 1475 Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 771/30 Hic canterus, a colok. 1507 Will of Pinfote (Somerset Ho.), A litel colok maser. 1554 Lanc. Wills I. 113 In the bruhouse..one essiou and a collack. 1573 Ibid. III. 60 Thre collockes or pales. 1563 Richmond. Wills (1853) 169 A kneadinge tube, iii. collecks..a fleshe collecke. 1570 Inv. S. Borwicke, Kendal (Somerset Ho.), One lytle collecke w{supt}{suph} salve in it. 1634–5 Mary Spencer's Test. in Bruce Calendar St. Papers, She used to tumble or trundle the collock, or peal, down the hill. 1636 Farington Papers (Chetham Soc.) 15, 1 Water Collocke. 1695 Kennett Par. Antiq. Gloss., s.v. Colerus, A great piggin, or pail, with a wide neck, is called a collock in the North. 1875 Lanc. Gloss., Collock, a large pail. |