gablock
English edit
Etymology edit
See gavelock.
Noun edit
gablock (plural gablocks)
- A false spur or gaff, fitted on the heel of a gamecock.
- 1746, John Collier, A View of the Lancashire Dialect, or, Tummus and Mar:
- stiff os a gablock
References edit
- “gablock”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.