These are the meanings of the letters FLOODCOCK when you unscramble them.
- Clock (n.)
A figure or figured work on the ankle or side of a stocking.
- Clock (n.)
A large beetle, esp. the European dung beetle (Scarabaeus stercorarius).
- Clock (n.)
A machine for measuring time, indicating the hour and other divisions by means of hands moving on a dial plate. Its works are moved by a weight or a spring, and it is often so constructed as to tell the hour by the stroke of a hammer on a bell. It is not adapted, like the watch, to be carried on the person.
- Clock (n.)
A watch, esp. one that strikes.
- Clock (n.)
The striking of a clock.
- Clock (v. t.)
To ornament with figured work, as the side of a stocking.
- Clock (v. t. & i.)
To call, as a hen. See Cluck.
- Flock (n.)
A Christian church or congregation; considered in their relation to the pastor, or minister in charge.
- Flock (n.)
A company or collection of living creatures; -- especially applied to sheep and birds, rarely to persons or (except in the plural) to cattle and other large animals; as, a flock of ravenous fowl.
- Flock (n.)
A lock of wool or hair.
- Flock (n.)
Woolen or cotton refuse (sing. / pl.), old rags, etc., reduced to a degree of fineness by machinery, and used for stuffing unpholstered furniture.
- Flock (sing. / pl.)
Very fine, sifted, woolen refuse, especially that from shearing the nap of cloths, used as a coating for wall paper to give it a velvety or clothlike appearance; also, the dust of vegetable fiber used for a similar purpose.
- Flock (v. i.)
To gather in companies or crowds.
- Flock (v. t.)
To coat with flock, as wall paper; to roughen the surface of (as glass) so as to give an appearance of being covered with fine flock.
- Flock (v. t.)
To flock to; to crowd.
- Flood (v. i.)
A great flow of water; a body of moving water; the flowing stream, as of a river; especially, a body of water, rising, swelling, and overflowing land not usually thus covered; a deluge; a freshet; an inundation.
- Flood (v. i.)
A great flow or stream of any fluid substance; as, a flood of light; a flood of lava; hence, a great quantity widely diffused; an overflowing; a superabundance; as, a flood of bank notes; a flood of paper currency.
- Flood (v. i.)
Menstrual disharge; menses.
- Flood (v. i.)
The flowing in of the tide; the semidiurnal swell or rise of water in the ocean; -- opposed to ebb; as, young flood; high flood.
- Flood (v. t.)
To cause or permit to be inundated; to fill or cover with water or other fluid; as, to flood arable land for irrigation; to fill to excess or to its full capacity; as, to flood a country with a depreciated currency.
- Flood (v. t.)
To overflow; to inundate; to deluge; as, the swollen river flooded the valley.
- Kloof (n.)
A glen; a ravine closed at its upper end.