: a pustule in an eruptive disease (such as smallpox)
also
: a spot suggesting such a pustule
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Noun
noticed strange pocks on his torso
Verb
one of the many craters that pock the moon's surface
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Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 9 Feb. 2024
Barks, not the pock of tennis balls, were heard across the sunny, 40-acre (16-hectare) grounds of the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center.
—Jennifer Peltz, ajc, 6 May 2023
Michael Hanback, Outdoor Life, 7 Nov. 2024
You've been stuck, up until this point, on a walled-off plateau, hundreds of feet above the rest of the kingdom of Hyrule, which is itself pocked with mountains and chasms.
—Julie Muncy, WIRED, 2 Mar. 2017
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Noun
They were riddled with lesions, pock marks and holes.
—Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 9 Feb. 2024
Barks, not the pock of tennis balls, were heard across the sunny, 40-acre (16-hectare) grounds of the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center.
—Jennifer Peltz, ajc, 6 May 2023
Verb
Best rut stand #5: A creek or shallow river crossing pocked with fresh tracks in brushy woods.
—Michael Hanback, Outdoor Life, 7 Nov. 2024
You've been stuck, up until this point, on a walled-off plateau, hundreds of feet above the rest of the kingdom of Hyrule, which is itself pocked with mountains and chasms.
—Julie Muncy, WIRED, 2 Mar. 2017
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“Pock.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pock. Accessed 3 Dec. 2024.
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pock
noun
: a pustule in an eruptive disease (as smallpox)
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