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Nocked vs Tocked - What's the difference?

nocked | tocked |

As verbs the difference between nocked and tocked

is that nocked is past tense of nock while tocked is past tense of tock.

nocked

English

Verb

(head)
  • (nock)

    • Anagrams

    * *

    nock

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Either of the two grooves in a bow that hold the bowstring.
  • The notch at the rear of an arrow that fits on the bowstring.
  • * Chapman
    • He took his arrow by the nock .
  • (nautical) The upper fore corner of a boom sail or trysail.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To fit an arrow against the bowstring of a bow or crossbow.
  • To cut a nock in (usually in an arrow's base or the tips of a bow).

    • Anagrams

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    References

    tocked

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (tock)

    • tock

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (used in conjunction with tick) A clicking sound similar to one made by the hands of a clock.

    • Derived terms

    * tick-tock

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To produce such a sound.
  • * Roger Ladd Memmott, Sweet Sally Ann
    • The clock chimed the hour and then audibly tocked as the pendulum swung behind the glass pane of the door.
  • * 1967 , William Gray Purcell, St. Croix Trail Country: Recollections of Wisconsin
    • The old clock tocked with a wooden "cluck," and like as not a squirrel would be hopping across the oilcloth table or scrambling along the loose bark of the log wall in search of a stray gingersnap.