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Bocking   Listen
noun
Bocking  n.  A coarse woolen fabric, used for floor cloths, to cover carpets, etc.; so called from the town of Bocking, in England, where it was first made.






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"Bocking" Quotes from Famous Books



... were hurt, not the less so that I knew that the large cloth which covered the middle of the floor, and which the women call a bocking, had been bought and nailed down there, after a solemn family-counsel, as the best means of concealing the too evident darns which years of good cheer had made needful in our stanch old household friend, the three-ply carpet, made in those days ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 75, January, 1864 • Various



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