gablock Obs. exc. dial.
(ˈgæblək)
Also 9 gablack, gaflock.
[var. of gavelock.]
† 1. An artificial metallic spur for a fighting cock. Obs.
| 1688 R. Holme Armoury ii. 252/2 Gablocks are Spurs made of Iron, or Brass, or Silver and are fixed on the Legs of such Cocks as want their natural Spurs, some call them Gaffs. 1706 in Phillips (ed. Kersey). 1848 in Craig, and in mod. Dicts. |
2. dial. An iron crowbar.
| c 1746 J. Collier (Tim Bobbin) View Lanc. Dial. Wks. (1862) 62 Truth on honesty..ston os stiff os o gablock. 1747 Hooson Miner's Dict. s.v. Gablock..we are seldome without one in the Works, which is straight and about a Yard long, and of very good Use to wrest a Stone, or a Spark of Ore that is large. 1855 Morton Cycl. Agric. II. 723 Gablock, Gavelock, an iron bar for putting up hurdles with. |