dag-lockn.
plural. Locks of wool clotted with dirt about the hinder parts of a sheep.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > genus Ovus > [noun] > Ovus Aries (domestic sheep) > body and parts of > fleece > on particular parts of the body > clotted with dung
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1623 Althorp MS. in J. N. Simpkinson Washingtons (1860) p. xlv To 12 women..2 daies washing dag-loakes.
1724 London Gaz. No. 6264/2 Frauds..are..committed..by winding in Fleeces, Locks, Tail-Locks, Sheer-Locks, Dagg-Locks.
1799 W. Pitt in Commun. Board Agric. II. 464 A very small proportion of breechings or daglocks.
1805 J. Luccock Nature & Prop. Wool 223 The bundles contained..a quantity of dag-locks, of wool from dead sheep.
1881 S. Evans Evans's Leicestershire Words (new ed.) Dag-locks, the long locks of wool about a sheep which dag in the dirt when the animal lies down, etc.
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