† skeldock Obs. rare.
Also 7 skaldock, 8 scaldrick.
[Obscurely related to kedlock; see also skelloch n.1]
(See quots.)
| 1673 Wedderburn Vocab. 18 (Jam.), Rapistrum arvorum, skaldocks. 1747 R. Maxwell Bee-Master (1750) 71 There are two Sorts of wild Mustard, the one commonly called Skeldocks, the other Runches... Skeldocks yield Yellow, Runches very white Honey. 1791 Statist. Acc. Scotl., Cramond I. 217 The long continued use of the town dung has filled the soil full of every kind of annual weeds, particularly..wild mustard, called here scaldricks. |