pock noun & verb. [pɒk]
[Old English poc, pocc- = Middle Low German, Middle Dutch pocke (Dutch pok, Low German pocke whence German Pocke), from Germanic, from base repr. also by Middle High German pfoch. See also POX noun.]
A. noun. Pl. pocks, pox.
1. A small pustule or pus-filled eruption; esp. any of the pustules typical of chickenpox and smallpox. OE.
b. A disfiguring spot or mark; a disfiguring pit or scar, a pock-mark. L19.

2. = POX noun 1. ME-M19.
b. verb trans. Mark with pocks or with disfiguring spots; pock-mark. M19.
■ A. Carter The wall..was pocked with bullet holes.
■ D. Nobbs Lawns..were pocked with slivers of earth cast up by worms.
■ J. Stallworthy Wading shoreward / with..bullets pocking the sea.

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