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▪ I. ˈpellock1, -ack, -och Sc.|ˈpɛlək, -ɒx|
Forms: 4 pelok, 6 pellok, (6 -at), 7 pealok, 7–9 pellack, 8 -uck, pallach, (9 palach), 9 pelloch, -ock.
[In 14th c. pelok, latinized peloca. Origin obscure: the Gael. peileag appears to be from Lowland Sc.]
The porpoise (Phocæna communis). But in quots. 1331, 1541, app. some other species.
1331in Exch. Rolls Scotl. I. 397 Et eidem, per vnam petram de porpoys et tres pelokis, xvs. [Ibid. 363 Per vnam pelocam, missam camerario, vs.] 1511Acc. Ld. High Treas. Scot. IV. 337 Item, to Robert Buttone katour for ane selcht and ane pellok and salt to thaim. 1541Bellenden Descr. Alb. ix. in Cron. Scot. B vj b, This firth [of Forth] is rycht plentuus of coclis, osteris, muschellis, selch, pellok, merswyne & quhalis. 1645Shetland Witch Trial in Hibbert Descr. Shetl. Isl. (1822) 599 Being transformed in the lyknes of an pellack quhaill. 1710Sibbald Hist. Fife 53 A Palach, a great Destroyer of Salmond. 1792Statist. Acc. Scotl. IV. 22 A species of sea animals..called buckers, pellocks, or porpoises. 1828Scott F.M. Perth iii, Gambolling like a pellack amongst the waves. 1894Crockett Raiders 219 Like a school of pellocks in the Firth.
fig.1755Forbes Jrnl. to Portsmouth in Ajax etc. 28 The second chiel was a thick, setterel, swown pallach.
▪ II. † ˈpellock2 Sc. Obs.
[app. f. pellet n.1, with exchange of dimin. suffix: see -ock.]
A ball thrown as a missile from a cross-bow, hackbut, cannon, etc.; a bullet; = pellet n.1 2.
c1470Gol. & Gaw. 463 Thai bend bowis of bras braithly within; Pellokis paisand to pase, Gapand gunnys of brase. 1496Acc. Ld. High Treas. Scot. I. 320 Giffin to a man to tak mesour of muldis of diuers gunnys, to send in Frans to mak pellokis of irne, xvjd. 1513Douglas æneis vii. xii. 111 Wyth leyd pellokis from engynis or staf slyng..thair fa men doun to ding. 1540Sc. Acts Jas. V (1814) II. 371/2 Euery landit man within þe samin Sall haue ane hagbute of founde..with þare calmis bullettis and pellokis of leid..or Irne.
b. Comb. † pellock-bow Obs., an arbalest.
1538in Pitcairn Crim. Trials I. *293 Ane irne of ane Pellok-bow. |