"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 |