sillock
English
Etymology
From sill (“newly hatched young of fish, fry”) + -ock, ultimately from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old Norse síl/síld (“herring”), whence also dialectal Swedish sil (“the young of fish, fry”) and Norwegian sil (“sand-eel”). More at sile.
Pronunciation
Noun
sillock (plural sillocks)
References
- “sillock”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.