subs. (schoolboys’).—1.  See quot.

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  1855.  J. K., in Notes and Queries, s.v., 12, 3 Nov., 344. BULLOCK, a cheat; but as I think, only when cheating at marbles.

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  2.  (Australian).—A countryman, a bushman: cf. BULLOCK-PUNCHER.

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  3.  (old).—A papal brief.

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  d. 1555.  LATIMER, Sermons, II, 378. I send you here a BULLOCK which I did find amongst my bulls, that you may see how closely in the time past the foreign prelates did practise about their prey.

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  Verb. (old).—To bully; to BOUNCE (q.v.); to intimidate. [Query BULLY.]

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  1716.  M. DAVIES, Athenæ Britannicæ, I., 272. Upon the evidence of that BULLOCKING Fryar Campanella.

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  1750.  FIELDING, Tom Jones, II., vi. And then you have charged me with BULLOCKING you into owning the truth.

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  1763.  FOOTE, The Mayor of Garratt, ii, 2. She shan’t think to BULLOCK and domineer over me.

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  1785.  GROSE, A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. TO BULLOCK, to hector, bounce, or bully.

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