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thurrock Obs. exc. dial.|ˈθʌrək|
Forms: 1 þurruc, 4–5 thurrok(e, thorrok(e, 5 thorrocke, 8 thorruck, 9 dial. thurrock, -uck.
[In sense 1, OE. þurruc ‘cumba’, small ship (?), bottom of a ship, bilge = Du. durk bilge (cf. durck, dorck ‘sentina’ in Kilian), of unknown etymology. It is doubtful whether senses 2 and 3 belong to the same word.]
1. The bilge of a ship. Also fig.
c1050Suppl. ælfric's Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 181/35 Cumba, uel caupolus, þurruc. c1386Chaucer Pars. T. ⁋363 The smale dropes of water that entren thurgh a litel creuace in to the thurrok [v.r. thorrok] and in the botme of the shipe. Ibid. ⁋715 Ydelnesse is the thurrok [v.r. thorroke] of alle wikked and vileyns thoghtes. c1440Promp. Parv. 493/2 Thurrok, of a schyppe, sentina. 1450–1530Myrr. our Ladye 109 A place in the bottome of a shyppe wherein ys gatheryd all the fylthe that cometh in to the shyppe... And that place stynketh ryghte fowle and yt ys called in some contre of thys londe a thorrocke. 1855Norfolk Words in Trans. Philol. Soc. 37 Thurruck, the lower flooring of the stern of a boat. 1866in J. G. Nall Gt. Yarmouth & Lowestoft 672. 1904 in Eng. Dial. Dict.
2. dial. A heap, spec. of muck or dirt.
1708Kersey, Thorruck (O.), a Heap. 1721in Bailey. 1881Leicester Gloss., Thurrock, a heap: chiefly applied to dirt or ‘muck’.
3. dial. A covered drain. Cf. thorough n. 2.
1847–78Halliwell, Thurruck, a drain. Kent. 1887Kentish Gloss., Thurrock, a wooden drain under a gate; a small passage or wooden tunnel through a bank. |