Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Covered with flock.
  • Having the nap raised.

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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of flock.

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Examples

  • Arriving at Telamon, in Etruria, and coming ashore, he proclaimed freedom for the slaves; and many of the countrymen, also, and shepherds thereabouts, who were already freemen, at the hearing his name flocked to him to the sea-side.

    The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003

  • Early Sunday morning the guests poured down the zig-zag in a living cataract on the one side, and flocked from the valleys on the other – from Hoti, from Kastrati and Boga, all in their best – men first, their women following.

    High Albania Mary Edith 1909

  • Supporters who had come to watch the squad in their half-term flocked to him in recognition of his form this season, leading Gerard Houllier to accept that the supporters have finally come around.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2010

  • Who more gladly than we throughout the Four Nations received the ` bloody sword, 'or at its warlike call flocked quicker to the standard of the King?

    Dracula 1897

  • The fifteen original members soon grew to a hundred and thirty, and men of the highest rank as well as literary name flocked to join it.

    Life of Adam Smith Rae, John, 1845-1915 1895

  • Nations received the 'bloody sword,' or at its warlike call flocked quicker to the standard of the King?

    Dracula Bram Stoker 1879

  • ‘bloody sword,’ or at its warlike call flocked quicker to the standard of the King?

    Dracula 2003

  • Wonder why these illegal immigrants "flocked" to South Louisiana?

    Archive 2007-05-01 2007

  • My sister was all whiny bitch about it, so we got a 'flocked' one.

    hamletwildie Diary Entry hamletwildie 2004

  • The person that's "flocked" has the opportunity to donate money toward the project.

    News 2010

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