hordock

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hordock (plural hordocks)

  1. (nonce word, used only by Shakespeare) A plant, possibly burdock.
    • c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iv]:
      Alack tis he, why he was met euen now,
      As mad as the vent sea singing aloud,
      Crownd with ranke femiter and furrow weedes,
      With hor-docks, hemlocke, netles, cookow flowers,
      Darnell and all the idle weedes that grow,
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