throck dial.
(θrɒk)
[OE. þroc, of unknown origin.]
In full plough-throck: The share-beam; = ploughhead 1.
| a 1000 Ags. Gloss. in Wr.-Wülcker 219/6 Dentale, s. est aratri pars prima in qua uomer inducitur quasi dens, sule-reost, uel þroc. 1649 W. Blithe Eng. Improv. Impr. xxviii. (1653) 190 For the Plough-head, some call them the Plough-throck, some the Plough-chip. 1688 R. Holme Armoury iii. 333/2 The Throck [of a Plow] is the piece of Timber on which the Suck is fixed. 1893 S.E. Worc. Gloss., Throck, the lower part of a (wooden) plough. On the end of the throck the ploughshare is fixed. |