Now dial. Forms: 5 collok, 5–6 colok, 6 collack, -eck(e, 6–9 collock; also 4 goloke. [In form app. a dim. in -OCK: the primitive appears to have been COLLE cask, tub.] A tub, or similar vessel; now, dial. a large pail.

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c. 1310.  Sat. People Kildare, xviii. in E. E. P. (1862), 155. Hokesters … wiþ candles and golokes and þe pottes blak.

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1437.  Test. Ebor. (1855), II. 61. Unam peciam coopertam, vocatam le collok.

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c. 1475.  Voc., in Wr.-Wülcker, 771/30. Hic canterus, a colok.

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1507.  Will of Pinfote (Somerset Ho.). A litel colok maser.

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1554.  Lanc. Wills, I. 113. In the bruhouse … one essiou and a collack. Ibid. (1573), III. 60. Thre collockes or pales.

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1563.  Richmond, Wills (1853), 169. A kneadinge tube, iii. collecks … a fleshe collecke.

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1570.  Inv. S. Borwicke, Kendal (Somerset Ho.). One lytle collecke wth salve in it.

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1634–5.  Mary Spencer’s Test., in Bruce, Calendar St. Papers. She used to tumble or trundle the collock, or peal, down the hill.

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1636.  Farington Papers (Chetham Soc.), 15. 1 Water Collocke.

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1695.  Kennett, Par. Antiq., Gloss., s.v. Colerus.… A great Piggin or pail with a wide neck is call’d a collock in the North.

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1875.  Lanc. Gloss., Collock, a large pail.

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