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plock

plock

9.9
A small piece of land with grass or flowers
  • noun
  • Archaic
translation icon : parcela

Examples

  • It was from there she heard the plock of a hit.

    Fiction book (1995)
  • Plus you don't charge 15 dollars a plock.

  • Plock, plock, who's there?

    Fiction book (1995)
  • Four o'clock, and the sky would be dark, and you'd hear the hollow wooden sound—plock, plock, plock—summoning you to meditation.

    Fiction book (1995)
  • Four o'clock, and the sky would be dark, and you'd hear the hollow wooden sound—plock, plock, plock—summoning you to meditation.

    Fiction book (1995)
  • Four o'clock, and the sky would be dark, and you'd hear the hollow wooden sound—plock, plock, plock—summoning you to meditation.

    Fiction book (1995)
  • In the countryside, he owned a small plock where he grew vegetables.

  • The children played on the grassy plock behind their house.

  • They built a cozy picnic spot on a little plock by the stream.

Synonyms

plat
vsplock
  • Formal
1 9.9

A small map showing land lots and their boundaries

is an older dialect word for tiny plots or tufts of grass

Surface Forms

plock singular
plocks plural

Etymology

Plock once meant a small 'patch' of land or a tuft of grass, like a tiny plot you can point to on a hillside. That's why plock is used for a little area of grass or a very small piece of land.