rocke

See also: rocké and Röcke

French

Verb

rocke

1. inflection of rocker:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

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Etymology

From Middle English wracke, from a merger of Old English wracu, wræc (“misery, suffering”) and Old English wrǣċ (“vengeance, revenge”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /rɔk/

Noun

rocke

1. shipwreck

Derived terms

• zhiprocke

References

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 65