sour dockn.
Now dialect.
Common sorrel ( Rumex acetosa).
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Polygonaceae (dock and allies) > [noun] > dock and allies > sorrel
sour dockc1325
sorrelc1440
sourock?a1505
sheep's sorrel1578
Tours sorrel1578
green sauce1620
moonwort1697
ranty-tantya1700
tree sorrel1753
sheep-sorrel1806
sour grass1866
the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular vegetables > [noun] > culinary herbs > edible sorrel
sour dockc1325
sharp dockc1400
acetose?a1425
sorrelc1440
sourock?a1505
green sauce1620
sour docken1697
dock-sorrel1886
c1325 Gloss. W. de Bibbesw. in Wright Voc. 162 [Pour sauce vaut la surele, glossed] sour-dokke.
a1400 J. Mirfield Sinonoma Bartholomei (1882) 33 Oxilapacium, acedula, soure-dock.
c1450 Middle Eng. Med. Bk. (Heinrich) 88 Tak a rostede oynen, þe lilie rote, & sowredokkes.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 273/1 Sowerdocke, an herbe.
1532 (c1385) Usk's Test. Loue in Wks. G. Chaucer iii. f. ccclx The frute of the soure docke.
1548 W. Turner Names of Herbes sig. F.vijv Oxalis,..in englishe Sorel or sourdocke.
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. 255 They vse to seeth it after the maner of Soure-docke.
1647 H. Hexham Copious Eng. & Netherduytch Dict. (Herbs) Sorell, or sower docke, surcker, ofte Suyringh.
1825– in many dialect glossaries.
1896 J. K. Snowden Web of Old Weaver i. 6 Getting stuff to eat—pignuts, sour docks.
Derivatives
sour docken n. Now northern dialect
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular vegetables > [noun] > culinary herbs > edible sorrel
sour dockc1325
sharp dockc1400
acetose?a1425
sorrelc1440
sourock?a1505
green sauce1620
sour docken1697
dock-sorrel1886
1697 Philos. Trans. 1695–7 (Royal Soc.) 19 375 Acetosa (a Plant..which may well be called The Indian Sorrel, or Sower Docken).
1788 W. Marshall Provincialisms E. Yorks. in Rural Econ. Yorks. II. 354 Sourdocken, rumex acetosa; sorrel.
1825– in northern glossaries.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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