Definition of "flock"

flock¹

/flɒk/

noun
plural flocks
1. A number of birds together in a group, such as those gathered together for the purpose of migration.
2. A large number of animals associated together in a group; commonly used of sheep, but (dated) also used for goats, farmed animals, and a wide variety of animals.
  Quotations
  He told his father, and said it would be just suitable work for him to run about fields and woods amongst the strawberry hills after a flock of hares, and now and then lie down and take a nap on some sunny hill.
  1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 170
3. Those served by a particular pastor or shepherd.herd/flock
  Quotations
  1864, Alfred Tennyson, “Aylmer’s Field”, in Enoch Arden, &c., London: Edward Moxon & Co., […], page 83
  I also have other sheep that are not from this pen. I must lead them. They, too, will respond to my voice. So they will be one flock with one shepherd.
  1995, Green Key Books, God's Word to the Nations (John 10:16)‎
4. A large number of people.
  Quotations
  The heathen […] came to Nicanor by flocks.
  1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], 2 Maccabees 14:14
5. (Christianity) A religious congregation.
verb
third-person singular simple present flocks, present participle flocking, simple past and past participle flocked
1. (intransitive) To congregate in or head towards a place in large numbers.
  Quotations
  What place the gods for our repose assigned.Friends daily flock; and scarce the kindly springBegan to clothe the ground
  1697, Virgil, “(please specify the book number)”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […]
  Given the poor state of the line's trains and schedules, it is remarkable that people flock to use or experience it in embarrassingly large numbers.
  2021 October 20, Mark Rand, “S&C: a line fit for tourists... and everyone?”, in RAIL, number 942, page 43
2. (transitive, obsolete) To flock to; to crowd.
  Quotations
  Good fellows, trooping, flocked me so.
  1609, John Taylor, Penniless Pilgrimage
3. To treat a pool with chemicals to remove suspended particles.

flock²

/flɒk/

noun
countable and uncountable, plural flocks
1. Coarse tufts of wool or cotton used in bedding.
2. A lock of wool or hair.
  Quotations
  I prythee, Tom, beat Cut's saddle, put a few flocks in the point.
  c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act II, scene i]
3. Very fine sifted woollen refuse, especially that from shearing the nap of cloths, formerly used as a coating for wallpaper to give it a velvety or clothlike appearance; also, the dust of vegetable fibre used for a similar purpose.
  Quotations
  There was a neat hat-and-umbrella stand, and the stranger's weary feet fell soft on a good, serviceable dark-red drugget, which matched in colour the flock-paper on the walls.
  1913, Mrs. [Marie] Belloc Lowndes, chapter II, in The Lodger, London: Methuen; republished in Novels of Mystery: The Lodger; The Story of Ivy; What Really Happened, New York, N.Y.: Longmans, Green and Co., […], page 0091
verb
third-person singular simple present flocks, present participle flocking, simple past and past participle flocked
1. (transitive) To coat a surface with dense fibers or particles; especially, to create a dense arrangement of fibers with a desired nap.
2. To cover a Christmas tree with artificial snow.

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