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Flock   /flɑk/   Listen
Flock

noun
1.
A church congregation guided by a pastor.
2.
A group of birds.
3.
(often followed by 'of') a large number or amount or extent.  Synonyms: batch, deal, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad.  "A deal of trouble" , "A lot of money" , "He made a mint on the stock market" , "See the rest of the winners in our huge passel of photos" , "It must have cost plenty" , "A slew of journalists" , "A wad of money"
4.
An orderly crowd.  Synonym: troop.
5.
A group of sheep or goats.  Synonym: fold.
verb
(past & past part. flocked; pres. part. flocking)
1.
Move as a crowd or in a group.
2.
Come together as in a cluster or flock.  Synonyms: clump, cluster, constellate.





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"Flock" Quotes from Famous Books



... o'clock, Tam, who had spent an anxious afternoon by the hole in the garden wall watching for the rabbit, suddenly remembered his duties and started away over the moors to meet the Shepherd and round up any sheep that might have strayed from the flock, and at five Jock, returning from the byre, met his father coming home ...
— The Scotch Twins • Lucy Fitch Perkins
... to an inquiry, whether Adams or the boy was in fault, when it appearing that the missing goats were a part of Adams' flock, his master proceeded to beat him with a thick stick; he, however, resisted, and took away the stick, upon which a dozen Moors, principally women, attacked him, and gave him a ...
— Lander's Travels - The Travels of Richard Lander into the Interior of Africa • Robert Huish
... Crocker was one that would have provided an admirable "instance" for a preacher seeking to instil into an impecunious and sceptical flock the lesson that money does not of necessity bring with it happiness. And poetry has crystallised his position in the ...
— Piccadilly Jim • Pelham Grenville Wodehouse
... hill, Kepand a flock of fe: Mirry Makyne said him till 'Robin, thou rew on me: I haif thee luvit, loud and still, Thir yeiris twa or thre; My dule in dern bot gif thou dill, ...
— Book of English Verse • Bulchevy
... Now when King Olaf saw there was confusion among the bondes, he sent to them Thorer Gudbrandson; and when he came he told them King Olaf did not want to fight them, but named twelve of the ablest men in their flock of people, who were desired to come to King Olaf. The bondes agreed to this; and the twelve men went over a rising ground which is there, and came to the place where the king's army stood in array. The king said to them, "Ye bondes have done ...
— Heimskringla - The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway • Snorri Sturluson


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