passion-dock local.
[app. f. passion n. + dock n.1: but cf. patience 4.]
The plant Bistort (Polygonum Bistorta): see passions.
| 1828 Craven Gloss. s.v. Patience Dock, The leaves of the passion dock were a principal ingredient in herb puddings, which were formerly made..in this district, about the season of the passion. 1870 Hazlitt Brand's Pop. Antiq. I. 89 (Good Friday), In the North of England, they [used to] make a herb-pudding, composed, among other ingredients, of the passion-dock, on this day. |