Tock vs Nock - What's the difference?
tock | nock |
(used in conjunction with tick) A clicking sound similar to one made by the hands of a clock.
To produce such a sound.
* Roger Ladd Memmott, Sweet Sally Ann
* 1967 , William Gray Purcell, St. Croix Trail Country: Recollections of Wisconsin
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
(nautical) The upper fore corner of a boom sail or trysail.
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).
As nouns the difference between tock and nock
is that tock is (used in conjunction with tick) a clicking sound similar to one made by the hands of a clock while nock is either of the two grooves in a bow that hold the bowstring.As verbs the difference between tock and nock
is that tock is to produce such a sound while nock is to fit an arrow against the bowstring of a bow or crossbow.tock
English
Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* tick-tockVerb
(en verb)- The clock chimed the hour and then audibly tocked as the pendulum swung behind the glass pane of the door.
- 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.
nock
English
Noun
(en noun)- He took his arrow by the nock .