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Definition: Bock |
BockNoun1. Strong dark beer brewed in the fall and aged through the winter for spring consumption. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "bock" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1885. (references) |
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Bock is a type of German beer. Bottom fermented, it is named for the famous medieval German brewing town of Einbeck. The beer has a heavier taste than lager and is darkened by high-coloured malts. Bock is traditionally brewed in the winter time for drinking during the Spring.
Variants include Maibock (brewed for the month of May), Eisbock (ice bock), Weizenbock (wheat bock), and Doppelbock (double bock). The names of Doppelbock brews commonly end in -ator in honor of the original, Paulaner Salvator.
Many bock beer producers have displayed goats on bottle labels since Bock in German means billy goat. In the local dialect, Einbeck is pronounced similar to "Einbock", which sounds like ein Bock (a goat).
Bocks
- Einbecker Ur-Bock (Einbecker original bock)
- Hacker-Pschorr Dunkeler Bock
- Shiner Bock
Maibocks
- Spaten Premium Bock
- Ayinger Maibock
Weizenbocks
- Erdinger Pikantus Weizen Bock
- Schneider Aventinus
Doppelbocks
- Auer Peccator
- Ayinger Celebrator
- Hacker-Pschorr Animator
- Paulaner Salvator (original)
- Spaten Optimator
- Tucher Bajuvator
Eisbocks
- Niagara Eisbock
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Bock."
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Bock is a city located in Mille Lacs County, Minnesota. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 106.Geography
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 0.3 km² (0.1 mi²). 0.3 km² (0.1 mi²) of it is land and none of it is covered by water.Demographics
As of the census of 2000, there are 106 people, 46 households, and 31 families residing in the city. The population density is 314.8/km² (806.2/mi²). There are 48 housing units at an average density of 142.6/km² (365.1/mi²). The racial makeup of the city is 99.06% White, 0.00% African American, 0.00% Native American, 0.00% Asian, 0.00% Pacific Islander, 0.94% from other races, and 0.00% from two or more races. 2.83% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race. There are 46 households out of which 23.9% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 50.0% are married couples living together, 8.7% have a female householder with no husband present, and 32.6% are non-families. 28.3% of all households are made up of individuals and 13.0% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 2.22 and the average family size is 2.68. In the city the population is spread out with 17.9% under the age of 18, 10.4% from 18 to 24, 25.5% from 25 to 44, 28.3% from 45 to 64, and 17.9% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 44 years. For every 100 females there are 125.5 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 117.5 males. The median income for a household in the city is $31,250, and the median income for a family is $38,750. Males have a median income of $41,250 versus $21,250 for females. The per capita income for the city is $14,806. 9.3% of the population and 6.1% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total people living in poverty, 21.1% are under the age of 18 and 13.0% are 65 or older.Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Bock, Minnesota."
Synonym: BockSynonym: bock beer (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Food | Wine, spirits, liqueur, beer, ale, malt liquor, Sir John Barleycorn, stingo, heavy wet; grog, toddy, flip, purl, punch, negus, cup, bishop, wassail; gin; (intoxicating liquor); coffee, chocolate, cocoa, tea, the cup that cheers but not inebriates; bock beer, lager beer, Pilsener beer, schenck beer; Brazil tea, cider, claret, ice water, mate, mint julep; near beer. beer, non-alcoholic beverage. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Bock |
| Etymologies containing "bock": Steinbock. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Bock" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. German (buck, goat, he goat, ram, ramp, sawhorse, stag, stool, stubbornness, trestle, vaulting horse), Manx (buck, gelding, he, josser, male, swell), Swedish (billy goat, buck, cross, duck, fault, goat, he-goat, howler, tick, trestle). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Die Fleißigen Bienen vom Fröhlichen Bock (1970) Zum blauen Bock (1966) Bock i örtagård (1958) Un bon bock (1892) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | [Dr. August Carl Bock.] : Prosector Theatr. Anatom. Lips. / Röder ad Nat. Steindr. v. A. Kneisel. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | D. Henr. Frid. Delius. / Hirschmann pinx. 1789. J.C. Bock Sc. 1790. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | Artwork by Adolf Bock, 1941, published in a book on the German Navy published by Erich Klinghammer, Berlin, during World War II. It depicts the light cruisers Köln and Königsberg landing troops at Bergen, Norway, on 9 April 1940. Credit: NAVY. |  | Bock Hooker. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | Butzig, Cziskowo, Battrow, Bock, Grunau; thence in a northerly direction the boundary between the Kreise of Konitz and Schlochau to the point where this boundary cuts the river Brahe; thence to a point on the boundary of Pomerania 15 kilometres east of Rummelsburg: a line to be fixed on the ground leaving the following places in Poland: Konarzin, Kelpin, Adl. (reference) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Bock" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 64.71% of the time. "Bock" is used about 17 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 64.71% | 11 | 106,044 |
| Noun (singular) | 35.29% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Total | 100.00% | 17 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "bock" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Bock | Last name | 4,000 | 3,354 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
1. Bock, MN (city, FIPS 6814) |
Expressions using "bock": bock beer ♦ quarl bock. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
shiner bock | 73 | william bock | 3 |
otto bock | 51 | samuel adam triple bock | 3 |
bock | 50 | bock brittany | 3 |
bock water heater | 22 | blue bock kelly | 3 |
bock clark | 14 | bock care health otto | 3 |
amber bock | 13 | blue bock | 3 |
bock beer | 12 | bock ziegen | 3 |
beer bock shiner | 12 | bock de | 3 |
bock super | 8 | bock hinds | 3 |
bock minnesota | 7 | bock dudek | 2 |
villeroy bock | 6 | bock company fred music | 2 |
bock phil | 6 | dennis bock | 2 |
michelob amber bock | 6 | bock compressor | 2 |
richard bock | 5 | bock to bock | 2 |
paul bock | 5 | bock cay | 2 |
adam bock sam triple | 5 | bock nathalie | 2 |
bock jerry | 4 | associate bock | 2 |
bock hot water heater | 4 | amber beer bock | 2 |
david bock | 4 | bock brian | 2 |
fred bock | 4 | bock tour | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "bock"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | gotë birre (beer glass, bock beer, schooner). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | силна немска бира, чаша бира. (various references) | |
Danish | braenderblok (burner block, quarl bock), Bock's kunsthånd (Bock hand), bockoel (bock beer), moerkt bockoel (dark bock beer), mellemliggende fødevalse på horisontal rivewulf (bock feed rollers of an horizontal opener), mellemliggende fødevalse på horisontal rivewolfe (bock feed rollers of an horizontal opener), lyst bockoel (light bock beer). (various references) | |
Dutch | brandersteen (burner block, quarl bock), branderblok (burner block, quarl bock), bokbier (bock beer), licht bokbier (light bock beer), donker bokbier (dark bock beer). (various references) | |
Finnish | bock-olut (bock beer), suutinkivi (burner block, quarl bock), poltinkivi (burner block, quarl bock). (various references) | |
French | brique de brûleur(B) (quarl bock), bloc de brûleur (quarl bock), bière bock (bock beer), main articulé de Bock (Bock hand), cylindres intermédiaires d'une ouvreuse horizontale (bock feed rollers of an horizontal opener), cylindres de transfert d'une ouvreuse horizontale (bock feed rollers of an horizontal opener). (various references) | |
German | Bockbier (bock beer), Bock Hand (Bock hand), Duesenstein (burner block, quarl bock), Übertragungswalzen eines Horizontalöffners (bock feed rollers of an horizontal opener). (various references) | |
Greek | BOCK (bock beer), κύλινδροι μεταφοράς οριζόντιου ανοικτικού (bock feed rollers of an horizontal opener), καρνέ (notebook, pocket bock), πυρίμαχο μπλόκ καυστήρα (burner block, quarl bock), χέρι του Bock (Bock hand), είδοσ δυνατήσ μπύρασ (bock beer). (various references) | |
Italian | bocchetta del bruciatore a nafta (burner block, quarl bock), bocchetta del bruciatore a gas metano (burner block, quarl bock), birra "bock" (bock beer), cono del bruciatore (burner block, quarl bock). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ockbay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | escuro (abstruse, blackish, dark, darkling, deep, dim, dimness, dismal, dusk, dusky, fuscous, gloomy, inky, mirk, moonless, muddy, murk, murky, obscure, opaque, overcast, sable, somber, sombre, swart, umber). (various references) | |
Spanish | bloque de quemador (burner block, quarl bock), tobera (deflecting nozzle, nozzle, orifice), pieza de mechero (burner block, quarl bock), mano articulada de Bock (Bock hand), cilindros intermedios de una abridora horizontal (bock feed rollers of an horizontal opener), cerveza 'bock' (bock beer). (various references) | |
Swedish | brännardysa (burner block, quarl bock), bocköl (bock beer), bakre matarvalsar hos horisontalöppnare (bock feed rollers of an horizontal opener). (various references) | |
Turkish | siyah bira (bock beer, porter, stout). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | кухоль пива (pint), міцне темне пиво. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "bock": bocks. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "bock": kebbock. (additional references) | |
Words containing "bock": kebbocks, knickerbocker, knickerbockers. (additional references) | |
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"Bock" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: abock, Bbci, bc, bick, Bjorck, blck, bmoc, Bnoc, boc, boca, boch, bocn, boek, bok, Bokek, bolcek, boock, bookk, Borck, Borcke, bork, Boscq, Bosk, bowk, Boyko, obc. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "bock" (pronounced bÄ"k) |
| 3 | b Ä" k | Bach. |
| 2 | -Ä" k | antiknock, antilock, Bangkok, bloc, block, Brock, caulk, chalk, chock, clock, Croc, crock, Doc, dock, floc, flock, frock, hock, interlock, Jock, knock, Loch, lock, Mach, mock, Nock, overstock, pock, restock, Roc, rock, schlock, shock, smock, sock, stock, undock, unlock, walk, wok. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-c-k-o" | |
-1 letter: cob, kob. | |
-2 letters: bo. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-c-k-o" | |
+1 letter: block, bocks, brock, bucko. | |
+2 letters: beckon, bemock, blocks, blocky, brocks, buckos. | |
+3 letters: backhoe, backlog, backout, bannock, bawcock, beckons, becloak, bedrock, bemocks, bibcock, bittock, blocked, blocker, bonnock, boychik, brocket, buckoes, bullock, burdock, buttock, chabouk, chibouk, hogback, kebbock, lockbox, outback, rockaby, roebuck, tomback, unblock. | |
+4 letters: backbone, backdoor, backdrop, backflow, backhoes, backlogs, backmost, backouts, backroom, backstop, backwood, bannocks, bawcocks, beckoned, beckoner, becloaks, bedrocks, bemocked, bibcocks, bitstock, bittocks, blackboy, blackout, blacktop, blockade, blockage, blockers, blockier, blocking, blockish, blowback, bollocks, bonnocks, bookcase, booklice, bookrack, boondock, bootjack, bootlick, boschbok, boychick, boychiks, brockage, brockets, buckaroo, buckayro, buckeroo, buckshot, bullocks, bullocky, burdocks, buttocks, casebook, cashbook, chabouks, chapbook, chibouks, cockbill, cockboat, codebook, comblike, comeback, cookable, cookbook, copybook, cribwork, hogbacks, holdback, jackboot, kebbocks, lobstick, lockable, mockable, mossback, nonblack, outbacks, plowback, rockabye, roebucks, rollback, roorback, slotback, softback, subblock, sunblock, tombacks, unblocks. | |
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