Obs. [? f. LUD1 + -OCK (But it is possible that the lud may be really a shortened form.)] The loin, or the buttock.

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c. 1420.  Liber Cocorum (1862), 43. Take befe and sklice hit fayre and thynne, or þo luddock with owte or ellis with in.

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c. 1460.  Towneley Myst. xxx. 314. His luddokkys thai lowke like walk-mylne cloggys.

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c. 1490.  Promp. Parv., 296/1. Leend, lym of a beeste (MS. K., Pynson or luddok), lumbus.

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