† ˈedocke Obs.
[OE. éa-docca, f. ea water, river + dock.]
Some broad-leaved water-plant; ? the Clote or Yellow Water-lily (Nuphar lutea).
| c 1000 ælfric Gloss. in Wr.-Wülcker 136 Nimphea, eadocca. a 1387 Sinon. Barthol. (Anecd. Oxon.) 28 Lilium aquaticum, an edocke; flos ejus nenufar. a 1450 Alphita (Anecd. Oxon.) 94 Lappacium Aquaticum..angl. waterdokke uel edokke. [1884 Holland Cheshire Gloss. (E.D.S.) Eddick, the bur or burdock (Ardium Lappa); also Errick.] |