meaning of flock
1. A company or collection of living creatures; -- especially applied to sheep and birds, rarely to persons or (except in the plural) to cattle and other large animals; as, a flock of ravenous fowl.
2. A Christian church or congregation; considered in their relation to the pastor, or minister in charge.
3. To gather in companies or crowds.
4. To flock to; to crowd.
5. A lock of wool or hair.
6. Woolen or cotton refuse (sing. / pl. ), old rags, etc. , reduced to a degree of fineness by machinery, and used for stuffing unpholstered furniture.
7. Very fine, sifted, woolen refuse, especially that from shearing the nap of cloths, used as a coating for wall paper to give it a velvety or clothlike appearance; also, the dust of vegetable fiber used for a similar purpose.
8. To coat with flock, as wall paper; to roughen the surface of (as glass) so as to give an appearance of being covered with fine flock.
9. a group of birds
Related Words
flock | flocked | flocking | flockling | flockly | flockmel | flocky |
