bock

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See also: Bock and воск

English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From German Bockbier.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

bock (countable and uncountable, plural bocks)

  1. A strong dark beer brewed in the fall and aged through the winter for spring consumption.
    Synonym: bock beer

French[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

bock m (plural bocks)

  1. a beer glass having the capacity of approximately a quarter of a litre
  2. the content of such a beer glass

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Further reading[edit]

Manx[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Old Irish boc, poc, pocc (he-goat) (compare Irish boc).

Noun[edit]

bock m (genitive singular bock, plural buick)

  1. buck, male (of animals)
  2. gelding

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Mutation[edit]

Manx mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
bock vock mock
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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Swedish[edit]

bock (gymnastics equipment)

Etymology[edit]

From Old Swedish bukker, bokker, from Old Norse bokkr, bukkr, from Proto-Germanic *bukkaz‚ from Proto-Indo-European *bʰuǵno-, *bʰukkos, *bʰugkó-.

Noun[edit]

bock c

  1. a buck; the male of goat and deer
  2. the tick mark (), often marking something as incorrect in Sweden, but otherwise normally used to mark something as correct
    Antonym: (about "correct" vs. "incorrect") kryss
  3. a sawhorse
  4. a mount for a (roller) bearing
  5. a bend or fold of sheet metal
  6. a tool to bend or fold sheet metal
  7. leapfrog is called hoppa bock
  8. a gymnastics tool for leapfrogging

Declension[edit]

Declension of bock 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative bock bocken bockar bockarna
Genitive bocks bockens bockars bockarnas

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