Word Meaning

flock definition and meaning

n. A company or collection of living creatures; -- especially applied to sheep and birds, rarely to persons or (except in the plural) to cattle and other large animals; as, a flock of ravenous fowl.
n. A Christian church or congregation; considered in their relation to the pastor, or minister in charge.
v. i. To gather in companies or crowds.
v. t. To flock to; to crowd.
n. A lock of wool or hair.
n. Woolen or cotton refuse (sing. / pl.), old rags, etc., reduced to a degree of fineness by machinery, and used for stuffing unpholstered furniture.
sing. / pl. Very fine, sifted, woolen refuse, especially that from shearing the nap of cloths, used as a coating for wall paper to give it a velvety or clothlike appearance; also, the dust of vegetable fiber used for a similar purpose.
v. t. To coat with flock, as wall paper; to roughen the surface of (as glass) so as to give an appearance of being covered with fine flock.

Crossword clues for flock

- Birds of a feather ... together
- Cloud of birds
- Drove
- Group of birds
- Sheepseen together in a group
- Shepherd's charges for congregation
- Shepherd’s charges for congregation