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patience-dock Herb.
Also 9 patient-dock.
[f. patience n. 4 + dock n.1]
1. Properly, The dock called patience, Rumex Patientia.
[1640J. Parkinson Theatrum Botanicum ii. iii. 154 Garden Patience is a Docke bearing the name of Rhubarbe, for some small purging quality therein.] 1820T. Green Universal Herbal II. 498 Rumex Patientia; Patience Dock, or Rhubarb. 1822J. C. Loudon Encycl. Gardening 715 Herb Patience, or Patience Dock..is a hardy perennial plant, a native of Italy, introduced in 1573. 1859Trans. Illinois Agric. Soc. III. 513 Patience dock comes early, and makes good greens. 1884Miller Plant-n., Patience-Dock, Rumex Patientia. Ibid., Rumex Patientia, Monk's Rhubarb, Patience, or Patient Dock. 1972Y. Lovelock Vegetable Bk. i. 218 The spinach dock..is used in the early spring..and goes by such names as patience and patient dock. 1973C. A. Wilson Food & Drink in Britain vi. 204 Many other large-leaved green plants were employed in this pottage, including orache, clary, mallows, patience dock, borage and bugloss.
2. In the north of England, applied to the Bistort (Polygonum Bistorta), there also called passions, passion-dock, of which ‘the leaves are by some boiled in the Spring, and eaten as greens’ (Lightfoot Flora Scot. 206).
1776–96Withering Brit. Plants (ed. 3) II. 383 note, The young shoots are eaten in herb pudding in the North of England, and about Manchester, they are substituted for greens under the name of Patience Dock. 1865Science Gossip 36 (E.D.D.) In Cheshire the edible qualities of the plant are well known, but it is there called ‘patient dock’. 1872Routledge's Ev. Boy's Ann. Sept. 631/1 The young shoots are eaten under the name of Patience Dock. |