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11Brock [2] — Brock. 1) Stadt am Bug, im Kreise Pultusk des russischen Gouvernements Plock (Polen); 900 Ew.; 2) District im Gouvernement Ober Canada (Britisch Nordamerika); 19,000 Ew.; 65,000 cultivirte u. 240,000 uncultivirte Acker Ländereien; Producte:… …
12Brock [3] — Brock, Ludwig Frederik, geb. 1775 in Bieri in Norwegen, wurde Adjutant bei dem Prinzen von Württemberg u. dem General Schulenburg, dann bei dem Könige von Dänemark u. demnächst Chef des Stabes des Prinzen Christian Frederik, als dieser in… …
13brock — O.E. brocc badger, a borrowing from Celtic (Cf. O.Ir. brocc, Welsh broch). After c.1400, often with the adjective stinking, and meaning a low, dirty fellow …
14brock — [bräk] n. [ME brok < OE brocc < Brit * brokkos, sharp, pointed (in reference to its nose); akin to Welsh brach, L broccus: see BROACH] [Brit. Dial.] a badger …
15brock|et — «BROK iht», noun. 1. any one of a group of small tropical American deer with straight, unbranched antlers. 2. a male red deer in his second year with his first antlers, which are straight and spikelike. ╂[< Middle French brocart stag in its… …
16Brock — Cette page d’homonymie répertorie les différents sujets et articles partageant un même nom. Brock est un prénom, mais aussi un nom de famille. Il peut désigner : Patronyme Calvin Brock (1975 ), boxeur américain ; C. E. Brock (Charles… …
17Brock — This most interesting and unusual surname is of Anglo Saxon and Old French origin, and has three possible derivations. The first and most likely is that it originated as a nickname for one who resembled a badger, from the Olde English pre 7th… …
18brock — Brocket Brock et (br[o^]k [e^]t), n. [OE. broket, F. broquart fallow deer a year old, fr. the same root as E. broach, meaning point (hence tine of a horn).] 1. (Zo[ o]l.) A male red deer two years old; sometimes called {brock}. [1913 Webster] 2.… …
19brock — ‘Hang thee, brock’, says Sir Toby Belch to Malvolio, in Twelfth Night (2:v). ‘Brock’ literally means badger, an animal which, in the seventeenth century, was always described as ‘stinking’. The word was therefore applied at the time to a man… …
20brock — Badger Badg er, n. [OE. bageard, prob. fr. badge + ard, in reference to the white mark on its forehead. See {Badge},n.] 1. A carnivorous quadruped of the genus {Meles} or of an allied genus. It is a burrowing animal, with short, thick legs, and… …
