LekhoriLekhoriA number of birds together in a group, such as those gathered together for the purpose of migration.
A large number of animals associated together in a group; commonly used of sheep, but (dated) also used for goats, farmed animals, and a wide variety of animals.
He told his father, and said it would be just suitable work for him to run about fields and woods amongst the strawberry hills after a flock of hares, and now and then lie down and take a nap on some sunny hill.
Coarse tufts of wool or cotton used in bedding.
To congregate in or head towards a place in large numbers.
People flocked to the cinema to see the new film.
To flock to; to crowd.
A surname.
From Middle English flok, from Old English flocc (“flock, company, troop”), from Proto-West Germanic *flokk, from Proto-Germanic *flukkaz (“crowd, troop”). Cognate with German Low German Flock (“crowd...
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Good fellows, trooping, flocked me so.
To coat a surface with dense fibers or particles; especially, to create a dense arrangement of fibers with a desired nap.
the sampling and elution advantages of flocked swabs versus spun swabs