Good fellows, trooping, flocked me so.
Taylor (1609).
Flock, n. [OE. flokke; cf. D. vlok, G. flocke, OHG. floccho, Icel.
flki, perh. akin to E. flicker, flacker, or cf. L. floccus, F. floc.]
1. A lock of wool or hair.
I prythee, Tom, beat Cut's saddle, put a few flocks in the point
[pommel].
Shak.
2. Woolen or cotton refuse (sing. or pl.), old rags, etc., reduced to a
degree of fineness by machinery, and used for stuffing unpholstered
furniture.
3. 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.
Flock bed, a bed filled with flocks or locks of coarse wool, or pieces
of cloth cut up fine. "Once a flock bed, but repaired with straw."
Pope. -- Flock paper, paper coated with flock fixed with glue or size.
Flock, 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.
Flock"ling, n. A lamb. [Obs.] Brome (1659).