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Nock   Listen
noun
Nock  n.  
1.
A notch. "He took his arrow by the nock."
2.
(Naut.) The upper fore corner of a boom sail or of a trysail.





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"Nock" Quotes from Famous Books



... before the pigmy had squatted in front of them deliberately polishing his spear handle, but as if suddenly inspired by his big companion's burst of energy, he sprang up, strung his bow, placed the nock of an arrow upon the twisted sinew which held his weapon in a state of tension, and then bending forward he stood watching the movements of Mak, who stuck his spear into the earth, and then after fixing ...
— Dead Man's Land - Being the Voyage to Zimbambangwe of certain and uncertain • George Manville Fenn


Words linked to "Nock" :   notch, scotch, scar, pit, score, mark, scribe, pock, line, scarify


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