willock local.
(ˈwɪlək)
Also -ick.
[f. Will n.3 + -ock. Cf. etym. of guillem, guillemot.]
The guillemot; also, the puffin and the razor-bill.
| 1631 Pelham Gods Power 31 We found abundance of Willocks egges; (which is a Fowle about the bignesse of a Ducke). 1635 Voy. Foxe & James to N.W. (Hakluyt Soc.) I. 168 Going to kill willicks. 1802 Montagu Ornith. Dict. s.v. Puffin, At Dover, this, as well as the Razorbill, is indiscriminately called Willock. 1855 Kingsley Glaucus 2 Your boys..endanger your personal safety, by blazing away at innocent gulls and willocks. 1859 [see guillemot]. |