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Pronunciation : Smock
Part of Speech : n.
Etymology : [AS. smoc; akin to OHG. smocho, Icel. smokkr, and from the root of AS. sm to creep, akin to G. schmiegen to cling to, press close. MHG. smiegen, Icel. smj to creep through, to put on a garment which has a hole to put the head through; cf. Lith. smukti to
Definition : 1. A woman's under-garment; a shift; a chemise. In her smock, with head and foot all bare. Chaucer.

2. A blouse; a smoock frock. Carlyle.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913

Pronunciation : Smock
Part of Speech : a.
Definition : Defn: Of or pertaining to a smock; resembling a smock; hence, of or pertaining to a woman. Smock mill, a windmill of which only the cap turns round to meet the wind, in distinction from a post mill, whose whole building turns on a post. -- Smock race, a race run by women for the prize of a smock. [Prov. Eng.]
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913

Pronunciation : Smock
Part of Speech : v.
Definition : Defn: To provide with, or clothe in, a smock or a smock frock. Tennyson.

t.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913