flock

1) A tuft or waste piece of wool, or a material made of such wool.

1377-8 Pro iij lib flockes emptis per eundem iijd, Bolton Priory

1466-8 ‘For 21 lb of flocks ... for making of blare’, Hull

1533 Names of those who make woollen cloths with woof called flock, West Riding

1560 xix stone of woell and a stone of flockes, Kendal.

dates 1377-1378 1466-1468 1533 1560

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