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castock Sc. and north. dial.|ˈkɑːstɒk, -æ-|
Also 4 caule stok, 5 cale stok, caustocke, 5–6 calstok, 6 calstock(e.
[f. cal, kale + stock: the vowel being shortened and the l at length lost before the consonant group: in mod.Sc. further reduced to casto', casta. Uncombined, it remains kale-stock, kail-stock.]
The stalk or stem of a cabbage.
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xvii. xxii. (MS.), Men may graffe on a bete stok, as men doþ on a caule stok [1495 caustocke]. c1425Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 644 Hoc magudere, calstok. 1483Cath. Angl. 51 A cale stok, maguderis, 1522Skelton Why Nat to Court 350 Nat worth a shyttel-cocke, Nat worth a sowre calstocke. c1620Z. Boyd Zion's Flowers (1855) 72 The Killings, Herrings, Castocks. 1785Jrnl. Lond. to Portsmouth in Poems Buchan Dial. 5 (Jam.) As freugh as kaill-castacks. 1808–79Jamieson, Castock, castack, custoc; often kail-castock. |