Sour dock, sour-dock

Now dial. [SOUR a. and DOCK sb.¹] Common sorrel (Rumex acetosa).

c. 1325.  Gloss. W. de Bibbesw., in Wright, Voc., 162. [Pour sauce vaut la surele, glossed] sour-dokke.

a. 1387.  Sinon. Barthol. (Anecd. Oxon.), 33. Oxilapacium, acedula, soure-dock.

1387–8.  T. Usk, Test. Love, III. vi. (Skeat), l. 7. The frute of the soure docke.

c. 1450.  M. E. Med. Bk. (Heinrich), 88. Tak a rostede oynen, þe lilie rote, & sowredokkes.

1530.  Palsgr., 273/1. Sowerdocke, an herbe.

1548.  Turner, Names Herbes (E. D. S.), 69. Oxalis,… in englishe Sorel or sourdocke.

1601.  Holland, Pliny, II. 255. They vse to seeth it after the maner of Soure-docke.

1647.  Hexham, I. (Herbs), Sorell, or sower docke, Surcker, ofte Suyringh.

1825–.  in many dialect glossaries.

1896.  Snowden, Web of Weaver, 6. Getting stuff to eat—pignuts, sour docks.

  So Sour docken. Now north. dial.

1697.  Phil. Trans., XIX. 375. Acetosa (a Plant … which may well be called The Indian Sorrel, or Sower Docken).

1788.  W. H. Marshall, Yorksh., II. 354. Sourdocken; rumex acetosa; sorrel.

1825–.  in northern glossaries.