[f. FLOCK sb.2]
1. trans. a. To stuff with flocks. b. To cover (a prepared surface of cloth or paper) with flock or wool-dust (see FLOCK sb.2 2–4).
1530. Palsgr., 552/2. Flocke your mattres for woll is dere.
1567. Sc. Act Jas. VI. (1814), 41/2. Þat þe said clayth be na wyiss flokkit.
18[?]. Manufacturer’s Rev., XX. 223 (Cent. Dict.). If the goods have been heavily flocked … there may be trouble in getting them evenly sheared.
† 2. To treat with contempt, set at naught (after L. flocci facere); also absol. Cf. FLOCK sb.2 1. Obs.
1545. Udall, etc., Erasm. Par. Luke xx. 47. Suche simple wedowes therefore do they easily flocke and loute.
1548. Geste, Pr. Masse, 132. What is to flocke and despyse god yf that be not.
a. 1575. Pilkington, Expos. Nehem., Wks. (Parker Soc.), 390. They have a dispensation in a box to lie from it, and flock and flout whosoever would have them to continue there and do their duty.
Hence Flocking vbl. sb. (attrib.).
1874. Knight, Dict. Mech., I. 886/1. Flocking-machine. One for distributing flock on a prepared surface of cloth or paper.
