bock

Swedish

noun
Definitions
  • a buck; the male of goat and deer
  • the tick mark (✓), indicating incorrectness in Swedish schoolbooks
  • a sawhorse
  • a mount for a (roller) bearing
  • a bend or fold of sheet metal
  • a tool to bend or fold sheet metal
  • leapfrog is called hoppa bock
  • a gymnastics tool for leapfrogging

Etymology

Inherited from Old Swedish bukker, bokker inherited from Old Norse bokkr, bukkr inherited from Proto-Germanic *bukkaz (male deer, buck) derived from Proto-Indo-European *bʰugkó-, *bʰuǵno-, *bʰukkos.

Origin

Proto-Indo-European

*bʰugkó-, *bʰuǵno-, *bʰukkos

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