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Meanings of nock in English

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Spanish
marcar

Make small marks into the surface of.

        marcar
        Usage of nock in English
        1
        Seize them now three inches below the lower nock of your bow.
        Hunting with the Bow & Arrow
        2
        Most of them could nock five or six arrows at once.
        The Sea of Monsters
        3
        The Crows did nock out Geelong in the preliminary final.
        News.com.au
        4
        Thus nock them all and sandpaper them smooth throughout, rounding the nocked end gracefully.
        Hunting with the Bow & Arrow
        5
        Someone should go in there and k-nock his block off.
        The new yorker
        6
        Lan pushed the bow down before Mat could nock another.
        To the blight: the eye of the world
        7
        Hunting arrows require no horn, bone, aluminum, or fiber nock.
        Hunting with the Bow & Arrow
        8
        The ribbon near the nock serves to protect the wood at this point from splitting.
        Hunting with the Bow & Arrow
        9
        Before he could nock another arrow, two knights rushed into the clearing from either side.
        Scarlet
        10
        Everyone nock an arrow and be ready to move.
        Tuck
        11
        She was drawing another arrow from her quiver, trying to nock it as she rode.
        The Lair of Bones
        12
        He plucked the nock off the string and placed the arrow back in his quiver.
        Seveneves
        13
        My fingers closed on the nock of the arrow as Sandra reached for the carbine.
        An ordinary decent criminal
        14
        Slip the upper loop down your bow and nock the lower loop on the lower horn.
        Hunting with the Bow & Arrow
        15
        He gently slid the arrow forward until the nock slipped over the string at its center.
        Hunting with the Bow & Arrow
        16
        It is a Scotch bow, I see, for the upper nock is without and the lower within.
        The White Company
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        Catalan
        marcar
        Spanish
        marcar
        Nock through the time