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sour dock, sour-dock Now dial.
[sour a. and dock n.1]
Common sorrel (Rumex acetosa).
c1325Gloss. W. de Bibbesw. in Wright Voc. 162 [Pour sauce vaut la surele, glossed] sour-dokke. a1387Sinon. Barthol. (Anecd. Oxon.) 33 Oxilapacium, acedula, soure-dock. 1387–8T. Usk Test. Love iii. vi. (Skeat) l. 7 The frute of the soure docke. c1450M.E. Med. Bk. (Heinrich) 88 Tak a rostede oynen, þe lilie rote, & sowredokkes. 1530Palsgr. 273/1 Sowerdocke, an herbe. 1548Turner Names Herbes (E.D.S.) 69 Oxalis,..in englishe Sorel or sourdocke. 1601Holland Pliny II. 255 They vse to seeth it after the maner of Soure-docke. 1647Hexham i. (Herbs), Sorell, or sower docke, Surcker, ofte Suyringh. 1825–in many dialect glossaries. 1896Snowden Web of Weaver 6 Getting stuff to eat—pignuts, sour docks.
So sour docken. Now north. dial.
1697Phil. Trans. XIX. 375 Acetosa (a Plant..which may well be called The Indian Sorrel, or Sower Docken). 1788W. H. Marshall Yorksh. II. 354 Sourdocken; rumex acetosa; sorrel. 1825–in northern glossaries. |